Narrating the Past through Theatre

Michael Y. Bennett is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA, where he teaches courses on modern drama. He is the author of: Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd (2011/2013); Words, Space, and the Audience (2012); Narrating the Past through Theatre (2012). He is the editor of Refiguring Oscar Wilde s Salome (2011) and the co-editor of Eugene O'Neill's One-Act Plays (2012). He is also Editor of The Edward Albee Review.

Introduction: Translating History's Narratives on the Modern Stage Danton's Memory: Structural Impossibilities in Büchner's Danton's Death Salome's Tale—Jokanaan's Telling—Wilde's Retelling: Historical Relativity and (Un)specificity in Wilde's Salome Galileo's Narrative: Translating 'Conditions' in Brecht's Life of Galileo Conclusion