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Comparative Drama Volume 42 • Spring 2008 • No. 1
Guest Edited by Robert Markley

This Volume will contain the following contributions:

Introduction: Rethinking Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama

Robert Markley

All injury’s forgot”: Restoration Sex Comedy and National Amnesia

Laura Rosenthal

Gimcrack’s Legacy: Sex, Wealth, and the Theater of Experimental Philosophy

Tita Chico

The Paradoxes of Slavery in Thomas Southerne’s Oroonoko

Diana Jaher

Performing the West Indies: Comedy, Feeling, and British Identity

Jean Marsden

Sheridan, The School for Scandal, and Aggression

James Thompson

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Comparative Drama Volume 42 • Summer 2008 • No. 2

This Volume will contain the following contributions:

Essays

The Secular Morality of Middleton’s City Comedies

Derek Alwes

Dragon Fathers and Unnatural Children: Warring Generations in King Lear and its Sources

Meredith Skura

Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses: Mythic Revision as Cathartic Ritual

Miriam M. Chirico

Re-Membering the Canon: The Literature Plays of Suzan-Lori Parks

Carol Schafer

“The End of Nigerian History”: Wole Soyinka and Yorùbá Historiography

Glen Odom

 

Reviews

Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy
by John Patrick Diggins

Reviewed by Larry Dugan

The Regal Theater and Black Culture
by Clovis E. Semmes

Reviewed by Rena Fraden

Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare
Scott L. Newstok, ed.

Reviewed by Ira Clark

Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production, and Reception
by Russell Jackson

Reviewed by Samuel Crowl

Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic
by Jeffrey Richards

Reviewed by Scott Slawinski

Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland
by John J. McGavin

Reviewed by David Klausner

Rhetorical Readings, Dark Comedies, and Shakespeare's Problem Plays
by Ira Clark

Reviewed by Christopher Crosbie

The Third Citizen: Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons
by Oliver Arnold

Reviewed by Richard McCoy

Cheshire: Records of Early English Drama

Reviewed by Peter Happé

 
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