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“Boadicea Onstage Before 1800, A Theatrical And Colonial History.” Studies In English Literature 1500-1900 49.3 (Summer 2009): 595-614., Wendy Nielsen

Wendy Nielsen

This essay examines the theatrical legacy of Boadicea, the British warrior queen defeated by the Romans around 61 AD, in three plays: John Fletcher's "The Tragedy of Bonduca, or the British Heroine" and two unrelated dramas titled "Boadicea" by Charles Hopkins and Richard Glover. Performance histories attempt to explain why audiences respond to Boadicea with ambivalence. Each production underplays the defeated queen and gives starring roles to one or more of her daughters and a male lead, who contrast with Boadicea's supposed brutality and provide British audiences with lessons about ways to rule in an ostensibly civilized fashion.

Exploding Bombs: Masculinity And War Trauma In Sam Shepard’S Drama, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

This paper examines violence and masculinity in Sam Shepard's work as a symptom of war trauma, apparent in his characterization of several of his male characters as war veterans and the violent language accompanying his other characters. War becomes a cultural disease infesting and destroying the family on Shepard's stage.

The Comedy Of Scholarship: Review Of Hugh Kenner’S Flaubert, Joyce And Beckett: The Stoic Comedians, Katherine Weiss

Katherine Weiss

Review of Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians. by Hugh Kenner

Women’S Literacy In Early Modern Spain And The New World, Ed. By Anne J. Cruz And Rosilie Hernández, Kirsten Schultz

Kirsten Schultz

No abstract provided.

Seventeenth-Century Social Hierarchy And Character Interpretation In "The Country Wife", Andrew Vorder Bruegge

Andrew Vorder Bruegge, Ph.D.

Analysis of characters in the drama within their cultural context. Four of the principal female characters succeed in attaining upward mobility in social class over the course of the action. The URL for the full-text document is: http://dx.doi.org/10.15640/ijmpa.v2n2a3

Romeo Castellucci: The Four Seasons Restaurant, Daniel Sack

Daniel Sack

No abstract provided.

Bibliography For Work In Digital Humanities And (Inter)Mediality Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.

A Monumental Mistake: Newly Discovered Letters To Handel Editor Samuel Arnold, Jeremy Barlow, Todd Gilman

Todd Gilman

Regarding The Pain Of Others (Part 2 Of 2): Brett Bailey's Exhibit B, Daniel Sack

Daniel Sack

No abstract provided.

Regarding The Pain Of Others (Part 1 Of 2): Romeo Castellucci's Schwanengesang D744, Daniel Sack

Daniel Sack

No abstract provided.

“Peer Reviewed: Elizabeth Inchbald’S Shakespeare Criticism", Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

No abstract provided.

Intended For The Stage?: Samson Agonistes In Performance, Timothy Burbery

Timothy J. Burbery

The year 2000 marked the centenary of an important but overlooked milestone in Milton studies, namely the first staging of Samson Agonistes, by William Poel, in 1900. While many scholars may be aware of isolated productions of the tragedy, the extent and variety of its stage history is perhaps less well-known. The work was successful as a dramatic reading throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it had never been attempted on the boards until Poel’s landmark production. That event ushered in a range of performances throughout the twentieth century, and nearly every decade saw several dramatizations. At least fifteen …

Review Of "Isaac's Eye," By Lucas Hnath, Ensemble Studio Theater, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

No abstract provided.

Nobilitashungariae: List Of Historical Surnames Of The Hungarian Nobility, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

nobilitashungariae: List of Historical Surnames of the Hungarian Nobility 2010- (ISSN 1923-9580 ©Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Purdue University Press) is compiled by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek based on published historical genealogical sources. nobilitashungariae is archived in the Electronic Collection of Library and Archives Canada. A magyar történelmi nemesség családneveinek listája 2010- (ISSN 1923-9580 ©Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek & Purdue University Press) genealógiai munkák alapján van Tötösy de Zepetnek Steven által összeállítva. A könyv állománya az Electronic Collection of Library and Archives Canada digitális archívumjának.

Rev. Of Clayton G. Mackenzie, Deadly Experiments: A Study Of Icons And Emblems Of Mortality In Christopher Marlowe’S Plays, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

David Garrick's Masque Of King Arthur With Thomas Arne's Score (1770)., Todd Gilman

Todd Gilman

Lincoln's In Town (A Play), Robert Bray, Nancy Steele Brokaw

Robert Bray

The play was produced in Bloomington, Illinois, February 13-15, 2009, at the Bloomington Performing Arts Center as part of the celebration of the bicentenary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.

"A Comely Presentation And The Habit To Admiration Reverend": Ecclesiastical Apparel On The Early Modern English Stage, Robert Lublin

Robert Lublin

Witchcraft And Wonder In The Winter's Tale, Kirby Farrell

kirby farrell

The Winter’s Tale is constructed to generate an experience of wonder as Hermione’s statue comes to life. Audiences are meant to share what Leontes calls “The pleasure of that madness” (5.3.73). This revelatory madness is magical undoing: it dissolves the paranoid paroxysm at the outset of the play that crystallizes ideas about witchcraft, even as Hermione's play death and "resurrection" purge her of associations with witches.

“Whosoever Loves Not Picture, Is Injurious To Truth": Costumes And The Stuart Masque, Robert Lublin

Robert Lublin

No abstract provided.

“An Vnder Black Dubblett Signifying A Spanish Hart”: Costumes And Politics In Middleton’S A Game At Chess, Robert Lublin

Robert Lublin

Spell #7 And Ntozake Shange’S Project Of Anti-Drama, Robert Lublin

Robert Lublin

No abstract provided.

Deliver Us From Evil: Essays On Symbolic Engagement In Early Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The focus of this book is on the reality of evil for medieval and Renaissance dramatists and their audiences. What propels the work beyond similar critiques is the author's insistence that evil is not an outmoded feature of past societies, but an active ingredient of contemporary life. Davidson fast forwards from distant times once described as "calamitous" to a century of far more violence and atrocity - our own twentieth and its overflow. While drawing on Kant to illuminate the kinds of evil portrayed in early drama through Marlowe and Shakespeare, Davidson refers to contemporary events that scream for an …

The Coventry Mysteries And Shakespeare’S Histories, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Feminist History, Theory, And Practice In The Shakespeare Classroom, Robert Lublin

Robert Lublin

No abstract provided.

History, Religion, And Violence: Cultural Contexts For Medieval And Renaissance Drama, Variorum Series, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Reprinted essays, except for “Marlowe, the Papacy, and Doctor Faustus.”

Rev. Of Lynn Forest-Hill, Transgressive Language In Medieval English Drama, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Rev. Of Sarah Beckwith, Signifying God: Social Relations And Symbolic Act In The York Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Gesture In Medieval Drama And Art, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

Includes essay “Gesture in Medieval English Drama.”

Differing Dramatic Dynamics In The Stage And Screen Versions Of Glengarry Glen Ross, Robert Lublin

Robert Lublin

No abstract provided.