Text & Presentation, 2007

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.

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.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Preface       1. Chicano Theatre in a Society in Crisis      Jorge Huerta2. Responding to a Society in Crisis      Jon D. Rossini3. When We Dead Awaken: The 1613 Marriage Masques of Shakespeare, Campion, and Beaumont      Ellen Caldwell4. Out of Wasteland: Remembering the Cultural Revolution in Wasteland and the Human Being 45Xiao Che5. The Hyperrealities of America’s Vietnam War and 9/11 in the French Theatre of Armand Gatti and Michel Vinaver      Les Essif6. Babel, Babble, and Multilingualism in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabu1 77Erith Jaffe-Berg7. Formal Subversion in How I Learned to Drive: A Structure of Meaning       Andrew Kimbrough8. Shaw’s Saint Joan and Shakespeare’s Joan la Pucelle      Annie Papreck King9. Luis Alfaro’s Electricidad and the “Tragedy of Electra”      Helen E. Moritz10. Actresses and the Making of the Modern Hamlet      Amy Muse11. Alan Bennett’s The History Boys: Education and “The Wherewithal to Resist It”      Doug Phillips12. No Red Blood: Clyde Fitch and the Staging of the Neurasthenic      Michael Schwartz13. Antigone in Pre–Wall and Post–Wall German Theatre: Bertolt Brecht’s and George Tabori’s Power Plays      Margaret Setje-Eilers14. Shaw’s St. Joan (1923): A Platonian Tragedy?      P. S. Sri15. Adapting an Internet Comic Strip for the Stage      James Utz16. Antigone and Terrorism: Seamus Heaney Sends a Letter to George W. Bush      Kelly Younger17. The Future of Dramatic Literature in the Academy:      A Roundtable DiscussionVerna Foster      Miriam Chirico      Jan L. Hagens      Karelisa Hartigan      Rush Rehm      Jon D. Rossini      Tony J. Stafford      18. Asian TheatreA Review EssayCarol Fisher Sorgenfrei 233Review of Literature: Selected BooksDavid Bevington, This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance Then and Now 239Emily BartelsC. W Marshall, The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy 241Eleni BoziaDavid Krasner, American Drama 1945–2000: An Introduction 245Dorothy ChanskyJohn Patrick Diggins, Eugene O’Neill’s America: Desire Under Democracy 246Kurt EisenJ. Michael Walton, Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English 249Katharine B. FreeAndrew Stott, Comedy, and Verna A. Foster, The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy 251M. Beth MeszarosIndex