Description: Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface 1. Aristophanes and the Theatre of Burlesque 2. The Dramatic Force of Questions in Early Modern Drama 3. The Globalization of "Riverbed Beggars" 4. Constance Ledbelly's Birthday: Construction of the Feminist Archetype of the Self in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Goodnight Desdemona ( Good Morning Juliet ) 5. Waking Up with Kaffirs: The Challenge of Maintaining the Social Fabric in The Iceman Cometh 6. A Prolegomenon to Comparative Drama in Canada: In Defense of Binary Studies 7. Olga Taxidou's Medea: A World Apart in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1997 8. A Politics of the Heart: The Use of Alienation and Yeats's The Dreaming of the Bones 9. Tian Han, Western Theatre, and Japan: The Problem with Source-Based and Target-Based Intercultural Models 10. "Improvisation of Local Character": Representations of Tragedy in the Absence of Theatre 11. Kimchi and Corn: Asian American Liminality in Sung Rno's Cleveland Raining 12. "Fair Fierce Women": From the Rat-Wife and Peg Inerny to Cathleen Ni Houlihan 13. Crossover Cross-Dressing: Vampire Lesbians and the Assimilation of Ridiculous Theatre 14. Poets and Ghosts Before Breakfast: O'Neill, Keats, and Le Fanu 15. Playing with History in a Private Space in Taesok Oh's Gynewah Gyrungyee and Apsana Dang yugra Ogeuma Miryora 16. "Metaphors Made Flesh": Embodying Allegory in Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses 17. Frank Castorf's Vision of America: The Pathology of Cultural Roles in a Mediatized Society 18. Samuel Beckett: A Review Essay REVIEW OF LITERATURE: SELECTED BOOKS W. B. Worthen, Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance Terry Eagleton, Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare Erroll G. Hill and James V. Hatch, eds., A History of African American Theatre Penny Farfan, Women, Modernism, & Performance Harry J. Elam, Jr. The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh, and Amanda Wrigley, eds., Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium John Conteh-Morgan and Tejumola Olaniyan, eds. African Drama and Performance Index

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