Text & Presentation, 2011

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. The Aristophanes-Chaeris Hypothesis: Did Aristophanes See an Adaptation of Aeschylus’s Persians During the Peloponnesian War?      (Stratos E. Constantinidis) 2. Saint Ambrose’s De officiis and the Image of Virtue in Shakespeare’s Richard II      (Mary Frances Williams) 3. The Ghost of Dante Alighieri in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet      (Rae Williams)4. “A Bottle-Nosed Lear”: The Threat of Burlesque in Victorian England and Late Antiquity      (Carly E.L. Maris)5. “Your Immediate Superior in Madness”: Orton’s What the Butler Saw and Foucault’s Madness and Civilization      (J. Andrew Gothard) 6. Dotty’s “Juney Old Moon”: The Romantic Imagination in Tom Stoppard’s Jumpers      (Miriam Chirico)7. Liz Lochhead’s Dracula: Revision and Reception      (Verna A. Foster)8. On Making the Classroom More Menacing: Pinter for Professors      (Doug Phillips)9. Theatre Artists Writing About Practice: A Review Essay      (Ann M. Shanahan)Review of Literature: Selected BooksEdith Hall. Greek Tragedy: Suffering Under the Sun      (Mary-Kay Gamel)Anthony Ellis. Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama: Comic Elders on the Italian and Shakespearean Stage      (Dennis Costa)Alexander C.Y. Huang. Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange      (Gary Kao-chen Liao)Kimberly Jannarone. Artaud and His Doubles      (Les Essif )Michael Y. Bennett. Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter      (Julia Listengarten)Rakesh H. Solomon. Albee in Performance      (Nicolas Pullin)Laurence Senelick, ed. The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner     (Jason Shaffer)Index