Text & Presentation, 2006

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. Post-Beckett Theatre      2. Saving Your Breath—And Beckett’s Too      3. New Plots and Playful Schemes: Shukô in Raguko, Japanese Comic Storytelling      4. Iphigenie’s Power in Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris      5. Mabou Mines Stage Beckett, 1965–1975: The Discipline of Word and Body      6. Stoppard vs. Brecht: Competing Visions of Galileo      7. New Stage Directions in Waiting for Godot      8. Tom Stoppard’s Night and Day, and the “Theatre in Crisis” Playwrights: Publicly Funded Arts and Freedom of Expression      9. Metaphor and Semiotics in Text and Movement Dance Performance      10. Theatre Hoplology: Simulations and Representations of Violence on the Stage      11. Acting Lessons at the Comédie Française: Nivelle de la Chaussée and the Theatricalization of Bourgeois Morality      12. Excavating Muliple “Troys”: An Embodied Deconstruction of the Scenario of Conquest through “Teatro de Vivência”      13. Philosophical Investigations: Will Eno’s Thom Pain and the      14. Foreign or Domestic Drama? Osanai Kaoru and Modern Wittgenstein Effect Japanese Theatre      15. Dressing-up Dramaturgy in Charles L. Mee’s Bacchae 2.1      16. Ch¨shingura and Beyond: A Study of Japanese Ideal of Loyalty      17. On Not Knowing Greek Drama: A Review Essay      Review of Literature: Selected BooksPhilip C. Kolin, Understanding Adrienne Kennedy      Badia Sahar AhadJohn J. White, Bertolt Brecht’s Dramatic Theory      Neil BlackadderMary F. Brewer, Staging Whiteness      Miriam M. ChiricoJames Fisher, ed., Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of the Plays      John M. ClumShannon Jackson, Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity      Penny FarfanSonia Massai, ed., World-Wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance      Robert OrmsbyCarol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-garde Theatre of Terayama Shûji and Postwar Japan      Thomas RimerLoren Kruger, Post-Imperial Brecht      Carl WeberIndex

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.