Text & presentation, 2008 (McFarland, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Martyred masculinities: Saint Sebastian and the dramas of Tennessee Williams and Federico García Lorca / José I. Badenes -- How to do things with witches: performing The crucible on stage and screen / Katherine Egerton -- Molière's revolutionary dramaturgy / Stephen H. Fleck -- Constructions of motherhood in Euripides' Medea / John Given -- Becoming romantic: women's sexual encounters with the other in Mourning becomes Electra and Machinal / Les Hunter -- "To be, or to be recorded": the Burton Hamlet, the Wooster Group, and the miracle of electronovision / Lindsay Brandon Hunter -- "Is this a dagger I see before me?": Jose Carrasquillo's all-nude production of Macbeth / William Hutchings -- Cognitive model transformation in Brecht's The Caucasian chalk circle / David Paxman and Michael Hatch -- Parables for his people: legal and religious authority in the plays of Stephen Adly Guirgis /David Pellegrini -- Classroom drama: Beckett for the high school set / Doug Phillips --
- Anne Hébert's La cage: a masque of liberation / Gregory J. Reid -- Mohammad bin Tughlaq: a fourteenth century Muslim sultan in 1960s South India / Kristen Rudisill -- The music man cometh: the tuneful pipe dreams of Professor Harold Hill / Michael Schwartz -- Tragic ways of killing a child: staging violence and revenge in classical Greek and Chinese drama / Fei Shi -- Brecht and Bullough: measuring the distance in Mother courage / Diane M. Somerville-Skinner -- The argonautic myth as subtext of Shakespeare's The tempest / Mary Frances Williams -- American musical theatre: a review essay / Stacy Wolf -- Graley Herren, Samuel Beckett's plays on film and television / Mary Bryden -- Toril Moi, Henrik Ibsen and the birth of modernism: art, theater, philosophy / Miriam Chirico -- Enoch Brater, ed., Arthur Miller's global theater / Katherine Egerton -- Mary Luckhurst, Dramaturgy: a revolution in theatre / Christopher Innes --
- Kiki Gounaridou, ed., Staging nationalism: essays on theatre and national identity / Siyuan Liu --Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten, Science on stage: from Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen / Jeffrey B. Loomis -- Philip C. Kolin, Contemporary African American women playwrights: a casebook; Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. and Alycia Smith-Howard, eds., Suzan-Lori Parks: a casebook / Annette Saddik -- Simon Goldhill, How to stage Greek tragedy today / James T. Svendsen -- Amy Scott-Douglass. Shakespeare inside: the bard behind bars / Sara L. Warner
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