Text & Presentation, 2012

Graley Herren is a professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati and an executive board member for the Comparative Drama Conference. He has published widely on modern literature, with an emphasis upon the drama of Samuel Beckett and the fiction of Don DeLillo.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceA Conversation with Paula VogelTheatre Critics Roundtable Discussion: Journalistic Criticism in Contemporary Culture23 deleteCassandra, Ghostface, and Fate: Greek Tragedy and the Contemporary Horror Film(Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.)In Search of the Inmost Self: Hamlet, Heidegger, and the Thing of the Play (Doug Phillips)The Novel as Drama: Staging Theatrical Aspects of the Narrative in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park (Ann M. Shanahan) 61 deleteStaging the American West: Liminality and Identity in David Belasco’s 1905 Production of The Girl of the Golden West (Annalisa Dias-Mandoly)Rachilde’s Supermale of Letters and the Invention of the Ubu Roi Riot (Sebastian Trainor)92 Refusing Election: Ethical Failure in W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood’s The Ascent of F6 (Ryan Sheets)All About Mothers: Sacred Violence in Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba and Tennessee Williams’s Suddenly, Last Summer (José I. Badenes) 125 deleteBack(lash) Into the Woods: Putting Women Back in Their Place(Peter C. Wood)Empty Stomachs, Empty Wombs, and Empty Graves: Gnosticism and the Search for Serbian Identity in Srbljanovic´’s Barbelo, on Dogs and Children (Melissa Rynn Porterfield)You Can Never Go Home: From Migrant Theatre to World Theatre in the Plays of Wajdi Mouawad (Ian Andrew MacDonald)165 deleteTea and Slavery: Elizabeth Kuti’s The Sugar Wife and the Question of Race in Celtic Tiger Ireland (Maria Doyle)Broadway “Her”stories: A Review Essay (Tim Carter)Four Paths Forward in Shaw Studies: A Review Essay (Norma Jenckes)Review of Literature: Selected BooksErin B. Mee and Helene P. Foley, eds. Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage (John Given) 201 Downing Cless. Ecology and Environment in European Drama (Jan L. Hagens)203 delete deleteM. Cody Poulton. A Beggar’s Art: Scripting Modernity in Japanese Drama, 1900–1930 (Siyuan Liu)205 deleteMaria M. Delgado and Dan Rebellato, eds. Contemporary European Theatre Directors (Lisa Portes)Kim Solga. Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance:  Invisible Acts (Lesley Kordecki and Karla Koskinen)210 Jenny Spencer, ed. Political and Protest Theatre After 9/11: Patriotic Dissent (Jody McAuliffe)212 deleteIndex

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