Text & Presentation, 2016

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 Tony Kushner (James Fisher) 5Signifyin’ Sam: Motivated Signifyin(g) and Future Nostalgia in ­Post-Reconstruction Black Musicals  (Beck Holden) 31Identifying with Presence, Absence and Identity in Laurie Anderson and Mohammed el Gharani’s Habeas Corpus (Ariel Sibert) 47Eating Your Children: Timberlake Wertenbaker and Erin Shields Adapt the Myth of Procne and Philomela (Clara Shaw Hardy) 62Terence, Wilder and Saturated Characterization (Mitch Brown) 76Molière’s Don Juan and Ukrainka’s The Stone Master: Freedom, Authenticity and the Other (George Mihaychuk) 92Musical Strindberg: The Soundscape of Ett Drömspel and Spöksonaten(Brigitte Bogar)  110Acting and the Politics of Print: A “Monster of Illiteracy” in the Published Pygmalion (Jeffrey M. Brown) 124Trying to Understand Adorno Trying to Understand Endgame (Doug Phillips) 143Dialogues of Dueling Genres: Williams’s Streetcar and Rose Tattoo (Jeffrey B. Loomis) 158“What are you doing in my hallucination?” Immigration, Hospitality and Transformation in Angels in America (Jodi Kanter) 175To Catch the Conscience of the Queen: Michael Laurence’s Hamlet in Bed (William Hutchings) 187You Can Take the Catholic Out of the Church, but…: Rajiv Joseph’s Catholic Dramaturgy (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.) 203Review of Literature: Selected Books Rosemarie K. Bank and Michal Kobialka, eds. Theatre/Performance Historiography: Time, Space, Matter (Jeffrey M. Brown) 219Matthew Kendrick. At Work in the Early Modern English Theater: Valuing Labor (Brittany Proudfoot Ginder) 222Melissa Mueller. Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy (Karelisa Hartigan) 225Esther Kim Lee. The Theatre of David Henry Hwang (William Hutchings) 229Blair Hoxby. What Was Tragedy? Theory and the Early Modern Canon (Michael Schwartz) 232Index 237