Text & Presentation, 2008

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 ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface1. Martyred Masculinities: Saint Sebastian and the Dramas of Tennessee Williams and Federico García Lorca      (José I. Badenes)2. How to Do Things with Witches: Performing The Crucible on Stage and Screen      (Katherine Egerton)3. Molière’s Revolutionary Dramaturgy      (Stephen H. Fleck)4. Constructions of Motherhood in Euripides’ Medea      (John Given)5. Becoming Romantic: Women’s Sexual Encounters with the Other in Mourning Becomes Electra and Machinal      (Les Hunter)6. “To Be, Or to Be Recorded”: The Burton Hamlet, the Wooster Group, and the Miracle of Electronovision      (Lindsay Brandon Hunter)7. “Is This a Dagger I See Before Me?”: José Carrasquillo’s All-Nude Production of Macbeth      (William Hutchings)8. Cognitive Model Transformation in Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle      (David Paxman and Michael Hatch)9. Parables for His People: Legal and Religious Authority in the Plays of Stephen Adly Guirgis      (David Pellegrini)10. Classroom Drama: Beckett for the High School Set      (Doug Phillips)11. Anne Hébert’s La cage: A Masque of Liberation      (Gregory J. Reid)12. Mohammad bin Tughlaq: A Fourteenth Century Muslim Sultan in 1960s South India      (Kristen Rudisill)13. The Music Man Cometh: The Tuneful Pipe Dreams of Professor Harold Hill      (Michael Schwartz)14. Tragic Ways of Killing a Child: Staging Violence and Revenge in Classical Greek and Chinese Drama      (Fei Shi)15. Brecht and Bullough: Measuring the Distance in Mother Courage      (Diane M. Somerville-Skinner)16. The Argonautic Myth as Subtext of Shakespeare’s The Tempest      192(Mary Frances Williams)17. American Musical Theatre: A Review Essay      (Stacy Wolf )Review of Literature: Selected BooksGraley Herren, Samuel Beckett’s Plays on Film and Television      (Mary Bryden)Toril Moi, Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy      213(Miriam Chirico)Enoch Brater, ed., Arthur Miller’s Global Theater      (Katherine Egerton)Mary Luckhurst, Dramaturg y: A Revolution in Theatre      (Christopher Innes)Kiki Gounaridou, ed., Staging Nationalism: Essays on Theatre and National Identity      221(Siyuan Liu)Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten. Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen      223(Jeffrey B. Loomis)Philip C. Kolin, Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A Casebook; Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. and Alycia Smith-Howard, eds., Suzan-Lori Parks: A Casebook      (Annette Saddik)Simon Goldhill, How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today      (James T. Svendsen)Amy Scott-Douglass. Shakespeare Inside: The Bard Behind Bars      (Sara L. Warner)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.