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This is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. Topics covered in this edition include metatheatrical experiments and adaptations of Greek tragedy, early Soviet orientalist plays, the working class on the 1920s Broadway stage, Tennessee Williams's grandfather as character model, psychotherapy on stage, and African-American musicals.

Text & Presentation is an annual anthology of essays devoted to all aspects of theatre and performance scholarship. This new volume represents a selection of the best research presented at the 35th international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference in Los Angeles. The essays include innovative detective work on Aristophanes's and Aeschylus's plays and discussions of topics including Joe Orton's plays as social protest against the power of psychiatry and the asylum, George Eliot's controversial description of the burlesque spirit as "fodder for degraded appetites," and psychological depictions of young women entering into sexual experience in Liz Lochhead's Dracula, among others.

Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference.

An annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship and represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference. Topics covered include Bernard Shaw's use of gardens and libraries in Widowers' Houses, and Northern Ireland emergency law in Brian Friel's The Freedom of the City.

Bringing together some of the best work from the 2015 Comparative Drama Conference, this book covers subjects from ancient Greece to 21st century America with a variety of approaches and formats, including two transcripts, 10 research papers and six book reviews. This year's highlight is the keynote conversation featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire.

Gathers some of the best work presented at the 2016 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore. The subjects covered in this volume range from ancient Greece to twenty-first century America, and include a variety of approaches and formats. The highlight of this volume is the conference's keynote conversation featuring the great American playwright Tony Kushner.

Presenting some of the best work from the 2017 Comparative Drama Conference at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, this collection highlights the latest research in comparative drama, performance and dramatic textual analysis. Contributors cover a broad range of topics, from the ""practical ethnography"" of directing foreign language productions to writing for theoretical stages.

The fifteenth in a series drawn from scholarship presented at the annual Comparative Drama Conference at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, this collection provides insights into texts and practices currently at the forefront of theatrical discussion.

Featuring some of the best work from the 2019 Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando, this book engages audiences with new research on contemporary and classic drama, performance studies, scenic design and adaptation theory in nine scholarly essays, two event transcripts and six book reviews.