Text & Presentation, 2017

Jay Malarcher is an associate professor of theatre and dramaturg at the School of Theatre & Dance, West Virginia University, Morgantown.

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 viiPreface 1A Conversation with Lisa Loomer (Amy Muse) 5Advancing Accessibility: The “Radical Deaf Theatre” of Aaron Sawyer’s The Vineyard (Mary Lutze) 19Irreconcilable Differences: Charles I, Henrietta Maria, and Jones’s and Townshend’s Court Masques (Mark Scott) 40Form and Frenzy in Caryl Churchill’s and David Lan’s A Mouthful of Birds (Melinda Powers) 55Skepticism in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: Examining Man’s Inefficacy through Suspect Language (Emily L. Sharrett) 70Reading Ahead: An Analysis of Editorial Prolegomena in Shakespeare’s Complete Works  (Melinda M. Marks) 86Jonson Is for Closers: Reflections on “Original Practice” (Joe Falocco) 95“You Ain’t Nothing but a ­Hoochie-Mama”: Explorations of Black Female Promiscuity in Contemporary Media Productions (Devair Jeffries) 106The Drama of the Ungifted Child or, Where’s the Old Confidence, Biff? (Doug Phillips) 122A Chameleon Anthology: Williams’s Source Plays Preview Variant Baby Dolls (Jeffrey B. Loomis) 140James and Nora Joyce’s “Greatest Love Story Never Told”: Jonathan Brielle’s Musical Himself and Nora (William Hutchings) 153On Bearing Witness to a Poetic Ritual: Robert Wilson’s Deafman Glance as Seen by János Pilinszky (Enikő Sepsi) 167Out of the Classroom and into the Community: A “Practical Ethnography” in Directing Foreign Language Theatre (Scott D. Taylor) 180What Is the Future of la compagnie in French Theatre? (Cynthia G. ­Running-Johnson) 195Review of Literature: Selected BooksDaniel Sack, ed. Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage (Ariel Watson) 209Julie Bates. Beckett’s Art of Salvage: Writing and Material Imagination, 1932–1987 (Robert Reginio) 213Jean-Michel Rabaté. Think, Pig! Beckett at the Limit of the Human  (Doug Phillips) 217Richard Preiss and Deanne Williams, eds. Childhood, Education and the Stage in Early Modern England (Jennifer Heller) 222Adrienne Macki Braconi. Harlem’s Theaters: A Staging Ground for Community, Class, and Contradiction, 1923–1939 (Beck Holden) 226Penny Farfan. Performing Queer Modernism (Rachel Busse) 230Index 235