Welcome to the Comparative Drama abstract index. Here we have posted abstracts or first paragraphs of every essay we have published since 2000. All available abstracts in this index are also linked from the corresponding entry in each of our existing indexes.

 

Abstracts

Essay Author Location
The Comic Ethos of Il Principe
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Angus Fletcher Volume 43.3
Fall 2009
Fletcher, Massinger, and Roman
Imperial Character
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John E. Curran, Jr. Volume 43.3
Fall 2009
Another Play On Salem Witch Trials:”
Lion Feuchtwanger, Communists, and Nazis
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Waltraud Maierhofer Volume 43.3
Fall 2009
The Earliest Middle English Interludes
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Stephanie Thompson Lundeen Volume 43.3
Fall 2009
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From Great Women to Top Girls: Pageants
of Sisterhood in British Feminist Theatre
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Rebecca Cameron Volume 43.2
Summer 2009
Diamonds, Maidens, Widow Dido,
and Cock-a-diddle-dow
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David Golz Volume 43.2
Summer 2009
Sermons, Exegesis, and Performance:
The Laon Ordo Prophetarum and the
Meaning of Advent
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Robert C. Lagueux Volume 43.2
Summer 2009
Evicted In—and From—Toronto:
Walker’s Beautiful City at Factory Theatre
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J. Chris Westgate Volume 43.2
Summer 2009
Lay Performances of Work and Salvation
in the York Cycle
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Andreea Boboc Volume 43.2
Summer 2009
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Roman World, Egyptian Earth; Cognitive
Difference and Empire in Shakespeare’s
Antony and Cleopatra
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Mary Thomas Crane Volume 43.1
Spring 2009
From Saint Genesius to Kean: Actors,
Martyrs, and Metatheater
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Mary Ann Frese Witt Volume 43.1
Spring 2009
Dumb Reading: The Noise of the Mute in Jonson’s Epicene
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Adrian Curtin Volume 43.1
Spring 2009
The Scriblerian Stage and Page: Three
Hours After Marriage
, Pope’s “Minor”
Poems, and the Problem of Genre-History
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Katherine Mannheimer Volume 43.1
Spring 2009
“Whom Seek Ye, Sirs?”: The Logic of
Searching in the York Herod and the Magi
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Nicole R. Rice Volume 43.1
Spring 2009
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Measure for Measure and the
(Anti-)Theatricality of Gascoigne's
The Glasse of Government
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Richard Hillman Volume 42.4
Winter 2008
‘Gentleness’ and Social Class in
The Merry Wives of Windsor
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Maurice Hunt Volume 42.4
Winter 2008
Creating Entertainments for Prince
Henry’s Creation (1610)
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David M. Bergeron Volume 42.4
Winter 2008
Being Mistress Eyre in Dekker's
The Shoemaker's Holiday
and
Deloney's The Gentle Craft
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Ann C. Christensen Volume 42.4
Winter 2008
“For want of Clelia”: Re-Placing the
Maternal Body in The Twin Rivals
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Elizabeth Savage Volume 42.4
Winter 2008
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Demonstration Performance of the
Cividale Planctus Mariae: A Report
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Eric Strand,
Matthew Steel,
and Clifford Davidson
Volume 42.3
Fall 2008
Scenarios of the “Descent into Hell”
in Two Processional Antiphons
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Clyde W. Brockett Volume 42.3
Fall 2008
Portrayals of the Vita Christi in the Medieval
German Marienklage: Signs of Franciscan
Exegesis and Rhetoricin Drama and Music

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Peter Loewen Volume 42.3
Fall 2008
Liturgical Drama and the “School of Abelard”
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David Wulstan Volume 42.3
Fall 2008
Pilgrims and Prostitutes: Costume
and Individualism in Twelfth-Century
Liturgical Drama
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Andrew J. Gibb Volume 42.3
Fall 2008
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The Secular Morality of Middleton’s
City Comedies
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Derek B. Alwes Volume 42.2
Summer 2008
Dragon Fathers and Unnatural Children:
Warring Generations in King Lear and
its Sources
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Meredith Skura Volume 42.2
Summer 2008
Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses:
Mythic Revision as Cathartic Ritual
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Miriam M. Chirico Volume 42.2
Summer 2008
Staging a New Literary History:
Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus, In the Blood,
and Fucking A
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Carol Schafer Volume 42.2
Summer 2008
“The End of Nigerian History”: Wole
Soyinka and Yorùbá Historiography
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Glenn A. Odom Volume 42.2
Summer 2008
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All injury’s forgot”: Restoration Sex Comedy
and National Amnesia
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Laura J. Rosenthal Volume 42.1
Spring 2008
Gimcrack’s Legacy: Sex, Wealth, and the
Theater of Experimental Philosophy
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Tita Chico Volume 42.1
Spring 2008
The Paradoxes of Slavery in Thomas
Southerne’s Oroonoko
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Diana Jaher Volume 42.1
Spring 2008
Performing the West Indies: Comedy,
Feeling, and British Identity
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Jean Marsden Volume 42.1
Spring 2008
Sheridan, The School for Scandal,
and Aggression
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James Thompson Volume 42.1
Spring 2008
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“I desyre to be paid”: Interpreting the
Language of Remuneration in Early
Modern Dramatic Archives
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Kara Northway Volume 41.4
Winter 2007-08
Wherefore Verona in The Two Gentlemen
of Verona
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David M. Bergeron Volume 41.4
Winter 2007-08 
Re-Membering the Jews: Theatrical
Violence in the N-Town Marian Plays
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Merrall Llewelyn Price Volume 41.4
Winter 2007-08 
The Merchant of Venice, the Arab-Israeli
Conflict, and the Perils of Shakespearean
Appropriation
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Mark Bayer Volume 41.4
Winter 2007-08 
Sacerdotal Vestiges in The Tempest
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Robert L. Reid Volume 41.4
Winter 2007-08 
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Puppets Dallying: Thoughts on
Shakespearean Theatricality
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Kenneth Gross Volume 41.3
Fall 2007
A Hermaphrodite? Lope de Vega and
the Controversy of Tragicomedy
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Sofie Kluge Volume 41.3
Fall 2007
G. B. Shaw’s Heartbreak House and
Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming:
Comedies of Implosion
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Emil Roy Volume 41.3
Fall 2007
Incest Disguised: Ottonian Influence at
Gandersheim and Hrotsvit’s Abraham
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Regula Meyer Evitt Volume 41.3
Fall 2007
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Aphra Behn’s The City Heiress: Feminism
and the Dynamics of Popular Success on the
Late Seventeenth-Century Stage
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Robert Markley Volume 41.2
Summer 2007
“To kindle an industrious desire”: The Poetry
of Work in Lord Mayors’ Shows
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Kara Northway Volume 41.2
Summer 2007
Comparing Poverty: Fictions of a
“Poor Theater” in Ruzante and Shakespeare
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Robert Henke Volume 41.2
Summer 2007
Transplanting the Work of “that rooted man”:
The Reception of John Millington Synge’s
Drama in Hungary
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Mária Kurdi Volume 41.2
Summer 2007
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“Is everything history?”: Churchill, Barker
and the Modern History Play
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Brean S. Hammond Volume 41.1
Spring 2007
Anti-Semitism, Surrogacy, and the Invocation
of Mohammed in thePlay of the Sacrament
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Michael Mark Chemers Volume 41.1
Spring 2007
‘My condicion in mannes soule to
kill’—Everyman’s Mercantile Salvation
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Roger A. Ladd Volume 41.1
Spring 2007
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Erasmus’
De Copia, and Sentential Ambiguity
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Jeffrey J. Yu Volume 41.1
Spring 2007
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The “Female Martinet”: Mrs. Harper,
Gender, and Civic Virtue on the Early
Republican Stage
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Jason Shaffer Volume 40.4
Winter 2006-07
Suffering Silences, Woeful Afflictions:
Physical Disability, Melodrama, and
the American Charity Movement
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Sheila Moeschen Volume 40.4
Winter 2006-07
Edwin Forrest’s Redding Up: Elocution,
Theater, and the Performance of the Frontier
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Matthew Rebhorn Volume 40.4
Winter 2006-07
Opposing Forces: (Re)Playing Pocahontas
and the Politics of Indian Removal on
the Antebellum Stage
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Rebecca Jaroff Volume 40.4
Winter 2006-07
The Bride Wielded a Razor: Images of
Women on the Blackface Stage of
James McIntyre and Thomas Heath
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Leslie Pasternack Volume 40.4
Winter 2006-07
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Material Economy, Spiritual Economy,
and Social Critique in Everyman
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Elizabeth Harper
and Britt Mize
Volume 40.3
Fall 2006
‘Things like truths, well feigned’: Mimesis
and Secrecy in Jonson’s Epicoene
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Reuben Sanchez Volume 40.3
Fall 2006
The Death of Representation and
the Representation of Death: Ionesco,
Beckett, and Stoppard
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Zoran Milutinović Volume 40.3
Fall 2006
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Talking with Ghosts of Irish Playwrights
Past: Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats…
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Richard Russell Volume 40.2
Summer 2006
Edmund Eyre's The Maid of Normandy;
or, Charlotte Corday in Anglo-Irish
Docudrama
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Wendy C. Nielsen Volume 40.2
Summer 2006
Serving Don Juan: Decorum in
Tirso de Molina and Molière
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Robert Bayliss Volume 40.2
Summer 2006
Money Changes Everything: Quarto and
Folio The Merry Wives of Windsor
and the Case for Revision

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Peter Grav Volume 40.2
Summer 2006
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Intertextualizing Polyphemus: Politics
and Ideology in Walcott’s Odyssey
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Zina Giannopoulou Volume 40.1
Spring 2006
The Common Good and the Necessity
of War: Emergent Republican Ideals in Shakespeare's Henry V and Coriolanus
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Rita Banerjee Volume 40.1
Spring 2006
Staging Act Five of Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell
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Timothy Richard Wutrich Volume 40.1
Spring 2006
The Emotional Theater of Milton’s
Paradise Lost
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Elizabeth Bradburn Volume 40.1
Spring 2006
Marriage in Late Medieval German Easter
and Shrovetide Plays
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Albrecht Classen Volume 40.1
Spring 2006
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The Weeping Mother in Sumidagawa,
Curlew River, and Medieval European
Religious Plays
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Mikiko Ishii Volume 39.3/4
Fall/Winter 2005-06
Medieval Korean Drama:
The Pongsan Mask Dance
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Dongchoon Lee Volume 39.3/4
Fall/Winter 2005-06
(Re)cycling Culture: The Development
of Chinese Opera in the United States
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Cecilia Pang Volume 39.3/4
Fall/Winter 2005-06
Japanese Noh and Kyôgen Plays:
Staging Dichotomy
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Zvika Serper Volume 39.3/4
Fall/Winter 2005-06
The Performance of Yuan Drama:
A Study of Stage Directions
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Min Tian Volume 39.3/4
Fall/Winter 2005-06
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The Play of the Surface: Theater and
The Turn of the Screw
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Frances Babbage Volume 39.2
Summer 2005
"Look on this picture, and on this":
Framing Shakespeare in William Wells
Brown's The Escape
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Keith M. Botelho Volume 39.2
Summer 2005
Playing for Time (and Playing with Time)
in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia
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Enoch Brater Volume 39.2
Summer 2005
Marlowe's Texts and Oral Transmissions:
Towards the Zielform
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Thomas Pettitt Volume 39.2
Summer 2005
The Sacrilization of Revenge in
Antonio's Revenge

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Phoebe S. Spinrad Volume 39.2
Summer 2005
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Jonson’s Volpone and Dante
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Christopher Baker |
and Richard Harp
Volume 39.1
Spring 2005
Thomas Heywood’s The Royall King,
and the Loyall Subject and the Fall
of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
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Kevin Lindberg Volume 39.1
Spring 2005
“Bodied Forth”: Spectator, Stage,
and Actor in the Early Modern Theater
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Jennifer Low Volume 39.1
Spring 2005
"In Better Places": Space, Identity, and
Alienation in Sarah Kane's Blasted
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Christopher Wixson Volume 39.1
Spring 2005
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Joan of Arc Internationale: Shaw,
Brecht, and the Law of Nations
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Julie Stone Peters Volume 38.4
Winter 2004-05
Shakespeare, Molly House Culture,
and the Eighteenth-Century Stage
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Charles Conaway Volume 38.4
Winter 2004-05
“Forward Backward” Time and
the Apocalypse in Hamlet
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Maurice Hunt Volume 38.4
Winter 2004-05
Interrogating the Devil: Social and Demonic Pressure in The Witch of Edmonton
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David Nicol Volume 38.4
Winter 2004-05
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Anti-Colonist Discourse, Tragicomedy,
and the “American” Behn
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Adam R. Beach Volume 38.2/3
Summer/Fall 2004
Meanings of All for Love, 1677-1813
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Tanya Caldwell Volume 38.2/3
Summer/Fall 2004
An American in Ireland: The
Representation of the American
in Brian Friel’s Plays
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Maria Germanou Volume 38.2/3
Summer/Fall 2004
Memory, Composition and the
Relationship of King John to The
Troublesome Raigne of King John
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Beatrice Groves Volume 38.2/3
Summer/Fall 2004
Serious Money Becomes "Business
by Other Means": Caryl Churchill's
Metatheatrical Subject
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Daniel Jernigan Volume 38.2/3
Summer/Fall 2004
Magic Mirrors in Richard II
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Robert M. Schuler Volume 38.2/3
Summer/Fall 2004
Politesse and the Woman at Risk:
the Social Comedies of
Marie-Thérèse De Camp
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Adrienne Scullion Volume 38.2/3
Summer/Fall 2004
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Disorder in the House of God:
Disrupted Worship in Shakespeare
and Others
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Bruce Boehrer Volume 38.1
Spring 2004
Unpardonable Sins: The Hazards
of Performative Language in the
Tragic Cases of Francesco Spiera
and Doctor Faustus
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Daniel Gate Volume 38.1
Spring 2004
The Dilemma of Naturalistic Tragedy:
Strindberg's Miss Julie
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Göran Stockenström Volume 38.1
Spring 2004
Jews in the Fleury Playbook
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Theresa Tinkle Volume 38.1
Spring 2004
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The Tyrone Anthology:
Authority in the Last Act of
Long Day’s Journey into Night
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Lawrence Dugan Volume 37.3/4
Fall/Winter 2003-04
Nonverbal Theatrical Elements in Ntozake
Shange's for colored girls…and Intissar
Abdel-Fatah's Makhadet El-Kohl
(The Kohl Pillow)
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Dalia El-Shayal Volume 37.3/4
Fall/Winter 2003-04
Extending the Breaks: Fires in the Mirror
in the Context of Hip-Hop Structure, Style,
and Culture
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Steve Feffer Volume 37.3/4
Fall/Winter 2003-04
Menaechmi and the
Renaissance of Comedy
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Richard F. Hardin Volume 37.3/4
Fall/Winter 2003-04
Blackened Faces and a Veiled Woman:
The Early Korcula Moreška
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Max Harris
and Lada Čale Feldman
Volume 37.3/4
Fall/Winter 2003-04
Chavittunātakam: Music-Drama in Kerala
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Joly Puthussery Volume 37.3/4
Fall/Winter 2003-04
Chinese Noh and Japanese Noh:
Nuo's Role in the Origination and
Formation of Noh
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Min Tian Volume 37.3/4
Fall/Winter 2003-04
The Lost Playing Places of Lincolnshire
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James Stokes Volume 37.3/4
Fall/Winter 2003-04
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The Globalization of Beckett’s Godot
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Enoch Brater Volume 37.2
Summer 2003
Borrowings and the Authorial
Domain: Gostanzo, Polonius,
and Marston’s Gonzago
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Charles Cathcart Volume 37.2
Summer 2003
But owthir in frith or felde:
The Rural in the York Cycle
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Chester Scoville Volume 37.2
Summer 2003
The Politics of Adapting Behn's Oroonoko
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Ann F. Widmayer Volume 37.2
Summer 2003
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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning
Juliet)
: From Shakespearean Tragedy to
Postmodern Satyr Play
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Igor Djordjevic Volume 37.1
Spring 2003
"Together Again": Theater in Postcolonial
Hong Kong
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Clayton G. MacKenzie
and Moira Arthurs
Volume 37.1
Spring 2003
The Trope of Transformation in
Medea: A Noh Cycle
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Loren Edelson Volume 37.1
Spring 2003
Mocking Dead Bones: Historical
Memory and the Theater of the Dead
in Richard III
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Stephen Marche Volume 37.1
Spring 2003
Tom Stoppard and "Postmodern Science": Normalizing Radical Epistemologies in
Hapgood and Arcadia
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Daniel Jernigan Volume 37.1
Spring 2003
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The Islamization of Spain in William
Rowley and Mary Pix: The Politics
of Nation and Gender
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Pilar Cuder Domínguez Volume 36.3/4
Fall/Winter 2002-03
As imaginem suam: Regional Chant Variants
and the Origins of the Jeu d'Adam
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Charles T. Downey Volume 36.3/4
Fall/Winter 2002-03
Lydgate's Mummings and the
Aristocratic Resistance to Drama
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Robert Epstein Volume 36.3/4
Fall/Winter 2002-03
Political Allegory in Late Elizabethan
and Early Jacobean "Turk" Plays:
Lust's Dominion and The Turke
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Clair Jowitt Volume 36.3/4
Fall/Winter 2002-03
Lessons in “Hopping”: The Dance
of Death and the Chester Mystery Cycle
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Sophie Oosterwijk Volume 36.3/4
Fall/Winter 2002-03
Performing Marriage with a Difference:
Wooing, Wedding, and Bedding in
The Taming of the Shrew
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Amy L. Smith Volume 36.3/4
Fall/Winter 2002-03
Cancer and the Common Woman
in Margaret Edson's W;t
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Jacqueline Vanhoutte Volume 36.3/4
Fall/Winter 2002-03
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Writing and Revenge: John Marston’s
Histriomastix
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James P. Bednarz Volume 36.1/2
Spring/Summer 2002
The Arlecchino and Three English Tinkers
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Nina DaVinci Nichols Volume 36.1/2
Spring/Summer 2002
Maturation and Political Upheaval in
Lloyd Fernando’s Scorpion Orchid
and Robert Yeo’s The Singapore Trilogy
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Catherine Diamond Volume 36.1/2
Spring/Summer 2002
Laughter in Medieval English Drama:
A Critique of Modernizing and
Historical Analyses
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Hans-Jürgen Diller Volume 36.1/2
Spring/Summer 2002
O’Neill and the Wobblies:
The IWW as a Model for Failure in
The Iceman Cometh
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Lawrence Dugan Volume 36.1/2
Spring/Summer 2002
Sights Unseen: Withholding Information
in the Plays of Thomas Bernhard
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William E. Gruber Volume 36.1/2
Spring/Summer 2002
Soft Touch: On the Renaissance
Staging and Meaning of the
‘Noli me tangere’ Icon
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Cynthia Lewis Volume 36.1/2
Spring/Summer 2002
Tragedy and Timon of Athens
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Robert B. Pierce Volume 36.1/2
Spring/Summer 2002
Rubin and Mercator: Grotesque
Comedy in the German Easter Play
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Martin W. Walsh Volume 36.1/2
Spring/Summer 2002
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Self-Discovery in Montaigne’s
“Of Solitariness” and King Lear
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Philip D. Collington Volume 35.3/4
Fall/Winter 2001-02
Brokering Glory for the Chinese
Nation: Peking Opera's
1930 American Tour
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Nancy Guy Volume 35.3/4
Fall/Winter 2001-02
Hedda and Bailu: Portraits of
Two “Bored” Women
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Chengzhou He Volume 35.3/4
Fall/Winter 2001-02
O’Neill and Jamie: A Survivor’s Tale
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Michael Hinden Volume 35.3/4
Fall/Winter 2001-02
Shakespeare's "Books of Memory":
1
and 2 Henry VI
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Jerome Mazzaro  Volume 35.3/4
Fall/Winter 2001-02
Mapping Jouissance: Insights
from a Case Study in the
Schizophrenia of Canadian Drama
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Gregory J. Reid Volume 35.3/4
Fall/Winter 2001-02
Situating the Holy: Celtic Community
in Breton and Cornish Saint Plays
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Victor I. Scherb Volume 35.3/4
Fall/Winter 2001-02
"Between Two Worlds": The Dybbuk and the Japanese Noh and Kabuki Ghost Plays
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Zvika Serper Volume 35.3/4
Fall/Winter 2001-02
Theatricality and Cosmopolitanism in
Hannah Cowley's The Belle's Stratagem
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Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace Volume 35.3/4
Fall/Winter 2001-02
The Boy Who Would Be King:
Court Revels of King Edward VI,
1547–1553
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Suzanne Westfall Volume 35.3/4
Fall/Winter 2001-02
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Staging Disorder: Charivari in the
N-Town Cycle
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Richard J. Moll Volume 35.2
Summer 2001
Amphitheater Staging:
In-the-Round or to the Front
(and What About Asides)?
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Richard Fotheringham Volume 35.2
Summer 2001
Shakespeare's Edward III: A Consolation
for English Recusants
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J. P. Conlan Volume 35.2
Summer 2001
Judeo-Christian Apocalyptic
Literature and John Crowne's
The Destruction of Jerusalem
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John B. Rollins Volume 35.2
Summer 2001
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Flattery in Shakespeare’s Othello:
The Relevance of Plutarch and
Sir Thomas Elyot
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Robert C. Evans Volume 35.1
Spring 2001
Intercession, Detraction, and
Just Judgment in Othello
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R. Chris Hassel, Jr. Volume 35.1
Spring 2001
Emblems of Folly in the First Othello:
Renaissance Blackface, Moor's Coat,
and "Muckender"
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Roger Hornback Volume 35.1
Spring 2001
"Othello/me": Racial Drag and the Pleasures
of Boundry-Crossing with Othello
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Elise Marks Volume 35.1
Spring 2001
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“I would faine serve”:
John Lyly's Career at Court
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Derek B. Alwes Volume 34.4
Winter 2000-01
"Look not big, nor stamp, nor stare":
Acting Up in The Taming of the Shrew
and the Coventry Herod Plays
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Jonathan Gil Harris Volume 34.4
Winter 2000-01
A Speculative Political Allegory
in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Maurice Hunt Volume 34.4
Winter 2000-01
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London and the Problem of
the Clerkenwell Plays
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Lawrence M. Clopper Volume 34.3
Fall 2000
Temporizing as Pyrrhonizing in
Marston's The Malcontent
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William M. Hamlin Volume 34.3
Fall 2000
“Those Proud Titles Thou Hast Won”:
Sovereignty, Power, and Combat in
Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy
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Jennifer Low Volume 34.3
Fall 2000
”My Naked Weapon”: Male Anxiety
and the Violent Courtship of the
Jacobean Stage Widow
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Jennifer Panek Volume 34.3
Fall 2000
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Out of Ireland: Revisionist Strategies
in Beckett’s Drama
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Laura Barge Volume 34.2
Summer 2000
Bandello’s “Timbreo and Fenicia”
and The Winter’s Tale
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Thomas E. Mussio Volume 34.2
Summer 2000
Absorbing Interests: Kyd's Bloody
Handkerchief as Palimpsest
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Andrew Sofer Volume 34.2
Summer 2000
The Urner Tellenspiel of 1512:
Strategies of Early Political Drama
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Martin W. Walsh Volume 34.2
Summer 2000
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Backbiter and the Rhetoric of Detraction
view 1st paragraph

Douglas W. Hayes Volume 34.1
Spring 2000
How Music Matters: Some Songs
of Robert Johnson in the Plays of
Beaumont and Fletcher
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Catherine A. Henze Volume 34.1
Spring 2000
Race and the Yankee: Woodworth's
The Forest Rose
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Jeffrey H. Richards Volume 34.1
Spring 2000
Marlowe’s Travesty of Virgil: Dido and
Elizabethan Dreams
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Donald Stump Volume 34.1
Spring 2000

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