Text & Presentation, 2005

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.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Preface      1. Aristophanes and the Theatre of Burlesque      2. The Dramatic Force of Questions in Early Modern Drama      3. The Globalization of “Riverbed Beggars”      4. Constance Ledbelly’s Birthday: Construction of the Feminist Archetype of the Self in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)       5. Waking Up with Kaffirs: The Challenge of Maintaining the Social Fabric in The Iceman Cometh      6. A Prolegomenon to Comparative Drama in Canada: In Defense of Binary Studies      7. Olga Taxidou’s Medea: A World Apart in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1997      8. A Politics of the Heart: The Use of Alienation and Yeats’s The Dreaming of the Bones      9. Tian Han, Western Theatre, and Japan: The Problem with Source-Based and Target-Based Intercultural Models      10. “Improvisation of Local Character”: Representations of Tragedy in the Absence of Theatre      11. Kimchi and Corn: Asian American Liminality in Sung Rno’s Cleveland Raining      12. “Fair Fierce Women”: From the Rat-Wife and Peg Inerny to Cathleen Ni Houlihan      13. Crossover Cross-Dressing: Vampire Lesbians and the Assimilation of Ridiculous Theatre      14. Poets and Ghosts Before Breakfast: O’Neill, Keats, and Le Fanu      15. Playing with History in a Private Space in Taesok Oh’s Gynewah Gyrungyee and Apsana Dang yugra Ogeuma Miryora      16. “Metaphors Made Flesh”: Embodying Allegory in Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses      17. Frank Castorf’s Vision of America: The Pathology of Cultural Roles in a Mediatized Society      18. Samuel Beckett: A Review Essay      REVIEW OF LITERATURE: SELECTED BOOKSW. B. Worthen, Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance      Terry Eagleton, Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic      Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare      Erroll G. Hill and James V. Hatch, eds., A History of African American Theatre      Penny Farfan, Women, Modernism, & Performance      Harry J. Elam, Jr. The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson      Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh, and Amanda Wrigley, eds., Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium      John Conteh-Morgan and Tejumola Olaniyan, eds. African Drama and Performance      Index

From previous volumes: “Edited with care...preserves the conference experience by extending its scholarly dialogue to the wider reading community...many fine essays”—New England Theatre Journal.