Text & Presentation, 2017

Jay Malarcher is an associate professor of theatre and dramaturg at the School of Theatre & Dance, West Virginia University, Morgantown.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments vii

Preface 1

A Conversation with Lisa Loomer (Amy Muse) 5

Advancing Accessibility: The “Radical Deaf Theatre” of Aaron

Sawyer’s The Vineyard (Mary Lutze) 19

Irreconcilable Differences: Charles I, Henrietta Maria, and Jones’s

and Townshend’s Court Masques (Mark Scott) 40

Form and Frenzy in Caryl Churchill’s and David Lan’s A Mouthful

of Birds (Melinda Powers) 55

Skepticism in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: Examining Man’s

Inefficacy through Suspect Language (Emily L. Sharrett) 70

Reading Ahead: An Analysis of Editorial Prolegomena in Shakespeare’s Complete Works  (Melinda M. Marks) 86

Jonson Is for Closers: Reflections on “Original Practice” (Joe Falocco) 95

“You Ain’t Nothing but a ­Hoochie-Mama”: Explorations of Black

Female Promiscuity in Contemporary Media Productions (Devair Jeffries) 106

The Drama of the Ungifted Child or, Where’s the Old

Confidence, Biff? (Doug Phillips) 122

A Chameleon Anthology: Williams’s Source Plays Preview

Variant Baby Dolls (Jeffrey B. Loomis) 140

James and Nora Joyce’s “Greatest Love Story Never Told”:

Jonathan Brielle’s Musical Himself and Nora (William Hutchings) 153

On Bearing Witness to a Poetic Ritual: Robert Wilson’s

Deafman Glance as Seen by János Pilinszky (Enikő Sepsi) 167

Out of the Classroom and into the Community: A “Practical

Ethnography” in Directing Foreign Language Theatre (Scott D. Taylor) 180

What Is the Future of la compagnie in French Theatre? (Cynthia G. ­Running-Johnson) 195

Review of Literature: Selected Books

Daniel Sack, ed. Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical

Stage (Ariel Watson) 209

Julie Bates. Beckett’s Art of Salvage: Writing and Material

Imagination, 1932–1987 (Robert Reginio) 213

Jean-Michel Rabaté. Think, Pig! Beckett at the Limit

of the Human  (Doug Phillips) 217

Richard Preiss and Deanne Williams, eds. Childhood, Education

and the Stage in Early Modern England (Jennifer Heller) 222

Adrienne Macki Braconi. Harlem’s Theaters: A Staging Ground

for Community, Class, and Contradiction, 1923–1939 (Beck Holden) 226

Penny Farfan. Performing Queer Modernism (Rachel Busse) 230

Index 235