Text & Presentation, 2009

Kiki Gounaridou teaches theatre history and theory in the Department of Theatre at Smith College. She has published articles, books, and reviews on theatre. An award-winning theatre director, she lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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. Where’s a Saint When You Need One? The Influence of Edmund Campion’s Ambrosia on Shakespeare’s Macbeth      (Mary Frances Williams)2. The (Im)perfect Wagnerite: Bernard Shaw and Richard Wagner      (Christopher Innes)3. Gardens and Libraries in Shaw’s Widowers’ Houses: “Life Here Is a Perfect Idyll”      (Tony J. Stafford)4. Relative Facts: Emergency Law, Northern Ireland, and Brian Friel’s The Freedom of the City      (Peter Leman)5. The Totalitarian Non-Tragedy of American Business in the French Plays of Michel Vinaver      (Les Essif )6. Attacking the Canon through the Corpse: Cannibalism and Surrogation in Hamletmachine      (Sonya Freeman Loftis)7. A Liberating Cruelty: Two Adaptations of Classical Tragedy for the Mexican Stage      (Francisco Barrenechea)8. Troy, Troy ... Taiwan: Transformation from Epic to Elegy      (Wen-ling Lin)9. Peeling Empire: Y¨ Miri’s Performance of “Resident Korean” in Japan      ( John D. Swain)10. Ping Chong’s Postcolonial Historicism and Theatricalism: Pojagi in The East-West Quartet      (Yuko Kurahashi)11. Great Souls, Big Wheels, and Other Words: Experiments with Truth and Representation in Verbatim Theatre      (Donald McManus)12. “Sounds Indistinguishable from Sights”: Staging Subjectivity in Katie Mitchell’s Waves      (Sharon Friedman)13. Down with Plot: Eisenstein, the Tramp, and the Subversiveness of “Montage of Attraction”      (Sascha Just)14. Rita Felski’s Rethinking Tragedy: A Review Essay      (Helen Moritz)Review of Literature: Selected BooksBernard Freydberg, Philosophy and Comedy: Aristophanes, Logos, and Eros      (Michael J. Griffin)Margaret Jane Kidnie, Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation      (Michael Shapiro)Mary Trotter, Modern Irish Theatre; Shaun Richards, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama; John P. Harrington, ed., Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama, 2nd edition      (Kelly Younger)Emily Roxworthy, The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma: Racial Performativity and World War II      (Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei)Neilesh Bose, ed., Beyond Bollywood and Broadway: Plays from the South Asian Diaspora      (Kristen Rudisill)Jon D. Rossini, Contemporary Latina/o Theater: Wrighting Ethnicity      (Yael Prizant)Sharon Friedman, ed., Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works: Critical Essays      (Laura Snyder)Index