Text & Presentation, 2004

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.

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

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Preface      1. Caught in Time: Creusa, Iphigenia, and Resolving the Past in Euripides’ Ion and Iphigenia in Tauris      2. “Because you spoke abuse against the king”: Parresia and Tyrannicide in Euripides’ Medea      3. “When I am laid in the earth”: Dido and Aeneas, Nahum Tate, and Anglo-Irish Consciousness      4. Oskar Blumenthal and the Lessing Theatre in Berlin (1888–1904)      5. Comedian of the Seventeenth Century: Ostrovskii’s Dialogue with Russian Theatre History      6. Critical Mimesis: Investigating Gender Roles with Ellen Terry      7. Spectacles in Terpsichorean Disrobing: Antecedents and Ideologies of the Striptease      8. Menagerie à Trois: Surrogate Love in The Glass Menagerie      9. Reconsidering Surrealist Drama: The Case of Nanos Valaoritis’ Round Tables      10. Narrative Discontinuity and Identity in Greek Old Comedy and the American Concept Musical      11. Views, Values and Worship: Religion and Social Class in the Plays of Romulus Linney      12. Deviant Speech: Understanding Churchill’s Use of Feminine Linguistics in Top Girls      13. Adrienne Kennedy’s Deadly Parts: Pictures, Portraits, and Plays      14. Faces of Contemporary Turkish-German Kabarett      15. Oedipus in New York: Greek Tragedy and Edward Albee’s The Goat, or, Who Is Sylvia?      16. From the Prophetic Performer to the Scribal Performer      17. Theatre and Politics: A Review Essay      REVIEW OF LITERATURE: SELECTED BOOKS       Hellmut Hal Rennert, ed., Essays on Twentieth-Century German Drama and Theater: An American Reception, 1977–1999      Andrew Sofer, The Stage Life of Props      Harold B. Segel, The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe since 1945      Elinor Fuchs and Una Chaudhuri, eds., Land/Scape/Theater      Japan Playwrights Association, Half a Century of Japanese Theatre: 1970s      Index