Text & Presentation, 2013

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.

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 ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceA Conversation with Edward Albee (David Crespy and Lincoln Konkle)Creon’s Accomplices: Cultural Trauma and Collective GuiltThree Modern Antigones (Katya Soll)Optical Illusions of Speech: Signification in Medieval English Marian Drama (Corey Wronski-Mayersak)Staging History, Fantasizing Reality: José Sanchis Sinisterra’s The Eldorado Puppet Show Through Miguel de Cervantes’s The Marvelous Puppet Show (Andreea Iulia Sprinceana)Post-Colonial Strindberg: Yael Farber’s South African Mies Julie (William Hutchings)Beholding the Denkspiel: Genre, Bodies, and Interpretive Practices in Georg Kaiser’s From Morning to Midnight (Caroline Weist)Co-Opting the ­Tom-Tom: Mediating the Primitive in Eugene ­O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones (Sarah Eilefson)Signed on the Dotted Line: George Kelly’s The ­Show-Off and the Fall and Rise of the ­Can-Do Hero (Michael Schwartz)“Cassandra, Meet Leadbelly”: Tennessee Williams Battles to Become Orpheus (Jeffrey B. Loomis)All That Jazz: Musical Idiom, Critical Reception, and African American Narrative in Opera (Patrick King)Noose Allure: Little Suicides and Singularity in Beckett’s Godot (Doug Phillips)Sarah Ruhl’s Sex Ed for Grownups (Amy Muse)Visualizing Postmemory on Documentary Stages: Postmemorial Dramaturgies in Annulla: An Autobiography and I Am My Own Wife (David Bisaha)The Theatre That Is and the Theatre That Might Be: Readings from the Theatre & Series: A Review Essay (Ian Andrew MacDonald)Review of Literature: Selected BooksVerna A. Foster, ed. Dramatic Revisions of Myths, Fairy Tales and Legends: Essays on Recent Plays (Frances Babbage)Kathryn Bosher, ed. Theater Outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy (Amy R. Cohen)Margaret Leask. Lena Ashwell: Actress, Patriot, Pioneer (Ellen Dolgin)Les Essif. American “Unculture” in French Drama: Homo Americanus and the Post–1960 French Resistance (Kevin Elstob)Christy Stanlake. Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective (Meredith K. James)Suk-Young Kim. Illusive Utopia: Theatre, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea (Ah-Jeong Kim)Soyica Diggs Colbert. The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance and the Stage (Nathaniel G. Nesmith)Index