Text & Presentation, 2004 -

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Résumé :
Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference. This anthology includes papers from the 28th annual conference held in Columbus, Ohio. Topics covered include Euripides, German and Russian theatre, dramatic antecedents of the striptease, surrogate love in The Glass Menagerie, surrealist drama, Greek comedy and the American concept musical, and theatre and politics....

Biographie:
Stratos E. Constantinidis, former director of the Comparative Drama Conference and former editor of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies, teaches in the Department of Theatre at Ohio State University and lives in Columbus....

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments?????
Preface?????

1. Caught in Time: Creusa, Iphigenia, and Resolving the Past in Euripides' Ion and Iphigenia in Tauris?????
2. Because you spoke abuse against the king: Parresia and Tyrannicide in Euripides' Medea?????
3. When I am laid in the earth: Dido and Aeneas, Nahum Tate, and Anglo-Irish Consciousness?????
4. Oskar Blumenthal and the Lessing Theatre in Berlin (1888-1904)?????
5. Comedian of the Seventeenth Century: Ostrovskii's Dialogue with Russian Theatre History?????
6. Critical Mimesis: Investigating Gender Roles with Ellen Terry?????
7. Spectacles in Terpsichorean Disrobing: Antecedents and Ideologies of the Striptease?????
8. Menagerie ? Trois: Surrogate Love in The Glass Menagerie?????
9. Reconsidering Surrealist Drama: The Case of Nanos Valaoritis' Round Tables?????
10. Narrative Discontinuity and Identity in Greek Old Comedy and the American Concept Musical?????
11. Views, Values and Worship: Religion and Social Class in the Plays of Romulus Linney?????
12. Deviant Speech: Understanding Churchill's Use of Feminine Linguistics in Top Girls?????
13. Adrienne Kennedy's Deadly Parts: Pictures, Portraits, and Plays?????
14. Faces of Contemporary Turkish-German Kabarett?????
15. Oedipus in New York: Greek Tragedy and Edward Albee's The Goat, or, Who Is Sylvia??????
16. From the Prophetic Performer to the Scribal Performer?????
17. Theatre and Politics: A Review Essay?????

REVIEW OF LITERATURE: SELECTED BOOKS ?????
Hellmut Hal Rennert, ed., Essays on Twentieth-Century German Drama and Theater: An American Reception, 1977-1999?????
Andrew Sofer, The Stage Life of Props?????
Harold B. Segel, The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe since 1945?????
Elinor Fuchs and Una Chaudhuri, eds., Land/Scape/Theater?????
Japan Playwrights Association, Half a Century of Japanese Theatre: 1970s?????

Index?????
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