Text & Presentation, 2009

Kiki Gounaridou teaches theatre history and theory in the Department of Theatre at Smith College. She has published articles, books, and reviews on theatre. An award-winning theatre director, she lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents



Acknowledgments     

Preface     



1. Where’s a Saint When You Need One? The Influence of Edmund Campion’s Ambrosia on Shakespeare’s Macbeth     

(Mary Frances Williams)

2. The (Im)perfect Wagnerite: Bernard Shaw and Richard Wagner     

(Christopher Innes)

3. Gardens and Libraries in Shaw’s Widowers’ Houses: “Life Here Is a Perfect Idyll”     

(Tony J. Stafford)

4. Relative Facts: Emergency Law, Northern Ireland, and Brian Friel’s The Freedom of the City     

(Peter Leman)

5. The Totalitarian Non-Tragedy of American Business in the French Plays of Michel Vinaver     

(Les Essif )

6. Attacking the Canon through the Corpse: Cannibalism and Surrogation in Hamletmachine     

(Sonya Freeman Loftis)

7. A Liberating Cruelty: Two Adaptations of Classical Tragedy for the Mexican Stage     

(Francisco Barrenechea)

8. Troy, Troy ... Taiwan: Transformation from Epic to Elegy     

(Wen-ling Lin)

9. Peeling Empire: Y¨ Miri’s Performance of “Resident Korean” in Japan     

( John D. Swain)

10. Ping Chong’s Postcolonial Historicism and Theatricalism: Pojagi in The East-West Quartet     

(Yuko Kurahashi)

11. Great Souls, Big Wheels, and Other Words: Experiments with Truth and Representation in Verbatim Theatre     

(Donald McManus)

12. “Sounds Indistinguishable from Sights”: Staging Subjectivity in Katie Mitchell’s Waves     

(Sharon Friedman)

13. Down with Plot: Eisenstein, the Tramp, and the Subversiveness of “Montage of Attraction”     

(Sascha Just)

14. Rita Felski’s Rethinking Tragedy: A Review Essay     

(Helen Moritz)



Review of Literature: Selected Books

Bernard Freydberg, Philosophy and Comedy: Aristophanes, Logos, and Eros     

(Michael J. Griffin)

Margaret Jane Kidnie, Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation     

(Michael Shapiro)

Mary Trotter, Modern Irish Theatre; Shaun Richards, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama; John P. Harrington, ed., Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama, 2nd edition     

(Kelly Younger)

Emily Roxworthy, The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma: Racial Performativity and World War II     

(Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei)

Neilesh Bose, ed., Beyond Bollywood and Broadway: Plays from the South Asian Diaspora     

(Kristen Rudisill)

Jon D. Rossini, Contemporary Latina/o Theater: Wrighting Ethnicity     

(Yael Prizant)

Sharon Friedman, ed., Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works: Critical Essays     

(Laura Snyder)


Index