Text & Presentation, 2015

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 David ­Lindsay-Abaire (Kelly Martin Younger)Visions of Tragedy in American Theatre(David Palmer, Jeffery Kennedy, Sharon Friedman, Jackson R. Bryer, Susan C.W. Abbotson, Stephen A. Marino, Natka Bianchini, Brenda Murphy, Sandra Shannon) Politic Silence: Female Choruses in Lochhead’s Medea and Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale (Lydia Craig)Gender, Democracy and the Justice of Athena’s Vote to Acquit Orestes (Jacqueline Long) “Kill the Pity in Us”: The Communal Crisis as Crisis of Individualism in David Grieg’s Oedipus the Visionary (Phillip Zapkin) With Rhyme and Reason: Hip Hop Hamlet in Prison (Elizabeth Charlebois) Strange Interludes: Wallace Stevens and the Theatrical Event (Doug Phillips) Spirits in Black and White: Ethiopia as the Black Columbia in African American Pageantry (Lurana Donnels ­O’Malley)In Search of the Void: Metaphysical Theatricality in Giorgio de Chirico’s The Painter’s Family and Emptiness in the Arts (Davenne Essif) Archives of an Ironic Film Fan: The “Tony” Drafts of The Glass Menagerie (Jeffrey B. Loomis) “Bring Your Own Translator”: Communication and Changing Business Paradigms in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross and David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish (Martha Johnson) Sympathetic Curiosity, Not Voyeurism: David ­Lindsay-Abaire Takes Up Joanna Baillie’s Abandoned Grief Project (Amy Muse) Review of Literature: Selected BooksPaul Elsam. Stephen Joseph: Theatre Pioneer and Provocateur (Verna A. Foster) J. Chris Westgate. Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage: Class, Poverty, Ethnicity and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890–1916 (William Hutchings) Gwendolyn ­Compton-Engle. Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes (Hallie Rebecca Marshall) Amy Holzapfel. Art, Vision and ­Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama: Acts of Seeing (Michael Schwartz) Ellen Ecker Dolgin. Shaw and the Actresses Franchise League: Staging Equality (Ann M. Shanahan) Judith Fletcher. Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama(Daniel B. Unruh) Index

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