Text & Presentation, 2005

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Stratos E. Constantinidis
McFarland, 21 dec. 2009 - 272 pagini

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 29th annual conference held in Northridge, California. Topics covered include drama in Ireland, Greece, England, Eastern Europe, Korea, Japan and North America.

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1 Aristophanes and the Theatre of Burlesque
3
2 The Dramatic Force of Questions in Early Modern Drama
15
3 The Globalization of Riverbed Beggars
28
4 Constance Ledbellys Birthday
43
5 Waking Up with Kaffirs
56
6 A Prolegomenon to Comparative Drama in Canada
66
7 Olga Taxidous Medea
81
8 A Politics of the Heart
93
12 Fair Fierce Women
145
13 Crossover CrossDressing
159
14 Poets and Ghosts Before Breakfast
169
15 Playing with History in a Private Space in Taesok Ohs Gynewah Gyrungyee and Apsana Dangyugra Ogeuma Miryora
183
16 Metaphors Made Flesh
195
17 Frank Castorf s Vision of America
212
18 Samuel Beckett
223
Review of Literature
229

9 Tian Han Western Theatre and Japan
106
10 Improvisations of Local Character
119
11 Kimchi and Corn
132
Index
251
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Pagina 7 - Napoleon utter a more original truth than when he said, that there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous...
Pagina 21 - BASSANIO Do all men kill the things they do not love? SHYLOCK Hates any man the thing he would not kill? BASSANIO Every offence is not a hate at first. SHYLOCK What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
Pagina 22 - Then wherefore should you ask me such a question? But that I am by nature phlegmatic, slow to wrath, and prone to lechery (to love, I would say), it were not for you to come within forty foot of the place of execution...
Pagina 177 - I became drunk with the beauty and singing rhythm of it, and for a moment I lost myself— actually lost my life. I was set free! I dissolved in the sea, became white sails and flying spray, became beauty and rhythm, became moonlight and the ship and the high dim-starred sky! I belonged, without past or future, within peace and unity and a wild joy, within something greater than my own life, or the life of Man, to Life itself! To God, if you want to put it that way.
Pagina 172 - ... scream and snatched the child from its little bed and she and the nurse ran down to the lady's sleeping-room, where Mr Prosser was in bed, shutting the door as they entered; and they had hardly done so, when a gentle tap came to it from the outside. There is a great deal more, but this will suffice. The singularity of the narrative seems to me to be this, that it describes the ghost of a hand and no more. The person to whom that hand belonged never once appeared; nor was it a hand separated from...
Pagina 99 - ... a greater service to our country than writing that compromises either in the seeming service of a cause.
Pagina 102 - Why do you dance? Why do you gaze, and with so passionate eyes, One on the other; and then turn away, Covering your eyes, and weave it in a dance? Who are you? what are you? you are not natural. Young Girl. Seven hundred years our lips have never met.
Pagina 23 - Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place; for where we are is hell...

Despre autor (2009)

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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