Text & Presentation, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Acknowledgments; Contents; Preface; A Conversation with Edward Albee (David Crespy and Lincoln Konkle); Creon's Accomplices: Cultural Trauma and Collective Guilt in Three Modern Antigones (Katya Soll); Optical Illusions of Speech: Signification in Medieval English Marian Drama (Corey Wronski-Mayersak); Staging History, Fantasizing Reality: José Sanchis Sinisterra's The Eldorado Puppet Show Through Miguel de Cervantes's The Marvelous Puppet Show (Andreea Iulia Sprinceana); Post-Colonial Strindberg: Yael Farber's South African Mies Julie (William Hutchings).

Beholding the Denkspiel:Genre, Bodies, and Interpretive Practices in Georg Kaiser's From Morning to Midnight (Caroline Weist)Co-Opting the Tom- Tom: Mediating the Primitivein Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones (Sarah Eilefson); Signed on the Dotted Line: George Kelly's The Show-Off and the Fall and Rise of the Can-Do Hero (Michael Schwartz); "Cassandra, Meet Leadbelly": Tennessee Williams Battles to Become Orpheus (Jeffrey B. Loomis); All That Jazz: Musical Idiom, Critical Reception, and African American Narrative in Opera (Patrick King).

Noose Allure: Little Suicides and Singularity in Beckett's Godot (Doug Phillips)Sarah Ruhl's Sex Ed for Grownups (Amy Muse); Visualizing Postmemory on Documentary Stages: Postmemorial Dramaturgies in Annulla: An Autobiography and I Am My Own Wife (David Bisaha); The Theatre That Is and the Theatre That Might Be: Readings from the Theatre & Series: A Review Essay (Ian Andrew MacDonald); Review of Literature: Selected Books; Verna A. Foster, ed. Dramatic Revisions of Myths, Fairy Tales and Legends: Essays on Recent Plays (Frances Babbage).

Kathryn Bosher, ed. Theater Outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy (Amy R. Cohen)Margaret Leask. Lena Ashwell: Actress, Patriot, Pioneer (Ellen Dolgin); Les Essif. American "Unculture" in French Drama: Homo Americanus and the Post-1960 French Resistance (Kevin Elstob); Christy Stanlake. Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective (Meredith K. James); Suk-Young Kim. Illusive Utopia: Theatre, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea (Ah-Jeong Kim); Soyica Diggs Colbert. The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance and the Stage (Nathaniel G. Nesmith); Index.

Text & Presentation, 2013 gathers some of the best work presented at the 2013 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore. Subjects ranging from Ancient Greece to 21st century America are covered with a variety of approaches and formats. Celebrated playwright Edward Albee's presentation is the lead piece, followed by 12 research papers, one review essay, and seven book reviews. This volume represents the latest research in the fields of comparative drama, performance, and dramatic textual analysis.

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