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Comparative Drama Volume 43 • Spring 2009 • No. 1

This volume contains the following contributions:

Essays
Roman World, Egyptian Earth; Cognitive Difference and Empire in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra

Mary Crane

From Saint Genesius to Kean: Actors, Martyrs, and Metatheater

Mary Ann Frese Witt

Dumb Reading: The Noise of the Mute in Jonson’s Epicene

Adrian Curtin

The Scriblerian Stage and Page: Three Hours After Marriage, Pope’s “Minor” Poems, and the Problem of Genre-History

Katherine Mannheimer

“Whom Seek Ye, Sirs?”: The Logic of Searching in the York Herod and the Magi

Nicole Rice

 
Reviews
Urban Theatre in the Low Countries: 1400-1625
Elsa Strietman and Peter Happé, eds.

Reviewed by M. M. Brown

Brecht at the Opera
by Joy Calico

Reviewed by Michael Ewans

Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France
by Sara Beam

Reviewed by Aurélie C. Capron

Theatre Censorship: From Walpole to Wilson
David Thomas, David Carlton, and Anne Etienne, eds.

Reviewed by Robert Goldstein

Generating Theatre Meaning: A Theory and Methodology of Performance Analyisis
by Eli Rozik

Reviewed by Erika Fischer-Lichte

The Staging of Romance in Late Shakespeare: Text and Theatrical Technique
by Christopher J. Cobb

Reviewed by Tom Bishop

Everyman and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc
edited by Clifford Davidson, Martin W. Walsh, and Ton J. Broos

Reviewed by Elsa Strietman

Shakespeare’s Practical Jokes: An Introduction to the Comic in His Works
by David Ellis

Reviewed by Pamela Brown