In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: In MemoriamClifford O. Davidson: 1932–2024 Click for larger view View full resolution In Memoriam Clifford O. Davidson (1932–2024) When Clifford Davidson retired from Western Michigan University in 2003, the Medieval Institute, where he held a joint appointment with English for nearly 40 years, printed a short volume of essays in his honor

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ”Simply Sitting in a Chair”: Questioning Representational Practice and Dramatic Convention in Marguerite Duras’s L’Amante anglaise and The Viaducts of Seine-et-Oise Shelley Orr (bio) One doesn’t know in life when things are there. They escape you . . . You want to know what it would take for it to be so. For me to be on stage saying nothing

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Rewriting Idolatry: Doctor Faustus and Romeo and Juliet Tom Rutter (bio) FAUSTUS Her lips sucks forth my soul. See where it flies! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Marlowe, Doctor Faustus ROMEO Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet 1 The lines quoted above accompany what

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Measuring Protagonism in Early Modern European Theatre: A Distant Reading of the Character of Sophonisba David J. Amelang (bio) Introduction Any person taking their first steps into the wide and complex world of early modern comparative theatre history immediately confronts one basic fact: that during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England by Holly Crawford Pickett Arthur F. Marotti (bio) Holly Crawford Pickett. The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. Pp. x + 264 + 8 b/w illus. $65.00 hardcover, $65.00 eBook. This study departs from

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire by Logan J. Connors Yann Robert (bio) Logan J. Connors. Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. x + 255 + 9 b/w illus. $110.00 hardback, $110.00 eBook. Logan J. Connors

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Macbeth by William Shakespeare Christopher Crosbie (bio) Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, directed by Simon Godwin, The Shakespeare Company, Washington, D.C. (April 9 – May 5, 2024) The penultimate figure in Jacques’ “seven ages of man” soliloquy brilliantly conveys the vulnerabilities of old age, presenting us with a person

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction:Text & Presentation Amy Muse and Victoria Scrimer Often, especially of late, great changes seem to come upon us suddenly. We awake one day and the world is altered, for better or worse, demanding of us a new normal. But anyone who studies drama knows that long before any big reveal on stage, change is afoot just beneath the

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "Only Write the Good Parts":Playwright Lucas Hnath in Conversation with Jay Malarcher The keynote address at the 2023 Comparative Drama Conference was a conversation with playwright Lucas Hnath. His plays, known for their striking intellectual-tennis match-style dialogue, include Death Tax (2012), A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Arthur Miller's Suicidology of the Stage:Suicide and Dramatic Form in Death of a Salesman Nicholas Duddy (bio) On August 5, 1962, the body of Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller's exwife, was found in the bedroom of her Brentwood home. Tangled bedsheets, bottles of pills, a rotary phone receiver by her hand—the room resembled the mise-en-scène

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "In this show let me an actor be":Joining in with Doctor Faustus Mark Scott (bio) Theatre is a fundamentally collaborative artform. Any successful live performance depends upon the participation of—and cooperation between—actors and spectators. On the Elizabethan stage, this axiom was most famously pronounced by the Chorus in William Shakespeare's

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Art Acts:Reframing the White Gaze in Claudia Rankine's The White Card Carla J. McDonough (bio) "Until we are willing to look at the ways in which white Americans are culpable in the suffering of the people of color, and understand that culpability needs to be present in the representation of that, suffering will continue." Claudia Rankine1

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Institutionalized Violence and Oppression:Ambiguity, Complicity and Resistance in El Campo and The Conduct of Life Araceli González Crespán (bio) Argentinian playwright Griselda Gambaro's El Campo, written in 1967 and first performed in 1968, is a play that portrays institutionalized violence through ambiguity, double meanings, duplicity

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Keeping the Violence Out of Sight:Representing Systems of Oppression with Offstage Violence Richard Gilbert (bio) Sometimes what we don't see with our own eyes can hit harder than what we do, and for those who create theatre that challenges the potent imbedded systems of violence by which our society oppresses so many of its people, hitting

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Perfect Joke: Autopathography and Humor in Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House Jeffrey M. Brown (bio) An Aesthetics of Anesthetics: The Problem of Humor in Medicine In spite of that old adage—"laughter is the best medicine"—it is hard to overcome the feeling that illness and humor are fundamentally incompatible. Indeed, this basic assumption

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Under the Influence:Adaptation, Adultery, and Acceptance in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car Paul D. Reich (bio) In A Theory of Adaptation, Linda Hutcheon defines adaptation in three ways: "an acknowledged transposition of a recognizable other work or works; a creative and an interpretative act of appropriation/salvaging;

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Euphoria in Unhappiness:Technology and Revelation in Jennifer Haley's Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom and The Nether M. Scott Phillips (bio) Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral;

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Torvald's Question:Italo Svevo and James Joyce Stage Modern Masculinity Christine Froula (bio) Nora! Nora! … Empty. She's gone. (A sudden hope leaps in him.) The greatest miracle—?! Torvald in Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House (1879) I have peeped into a great many doll's houses; and I have found that the dolls are not all female. Nora in George

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Noël Coward: The Playwright's Craft in a Changing Theatre by Russell Jackson, and: Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward by Oliver Soden Laura Milburn (bio) Russell Jackson, Noël Coward: The Playwright's Craft in a Changing Theatre. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. Pp 232. Hardcover $115.00 and Oliver Soden, Masquerade:

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Let the Right One Inby Jack Thorne Judith Saunders (bio) Let the Right One In, by Jack Thorne, directed by John Tiffany Berkeley Repertory Theatre (05 20– 06 25, 2023) The West Coast premiere of Let The Right One Inopened May 20, 2023 at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. This production was headed by the original British creative

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Jeffrey M. Brown is Associate Professor of English at Saint Joseph's University, where he teaches courses in modern literature, theatre, and the medical humanities. His current research considers the ways in which the theatre both models and elicits modes of affective engagement that are central to medical education, narrative

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "Old Words into Something New":David Bowie and Enda Walsh's Lazarus Michael Jaros (bio) Introduction: Avant-garde jukebox musical? When it was announced that David Bowie was to be involved in the creation of a new musical called Lazarus, which would premiere at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2015, it became the most sold-out ticket in

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "The world's a theatre of theft":Islamic Imposture in Tomkis' Albumazar Corinne Zeman (bio) The Goblins whom I now am coniuring vp . . . [are] thin-headed fellowes that liue upon the scraps of inuention and trauell with such vagrant soules, and so like Ghosts in white sheets of paper, that the Statute of Rogues may worthily be sued vpon

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Paracelsan Philosophy and Plot in Romeo and Juliet Jaecheol Kim (bio) Shakespeare, Paracelsus, and the Early Modern Medical Turn Disease is often communicated through language, and the trajectory of contagion is coterminous with its discursive orbit. Early modern dramatic works, especially the plays of Shakespeare, pay keen attention

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Shakespeare's Essays: Sampling Montaigne from Hamlet to The Tempest by Peter Platt Alan Farmer (bio) Peter Platt. Shakespeare's Essays: Sampling Montaigne from Hamlet to The Tempest. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. x + 198. $110.00 cloth, $24.95 paper, $110.00 eBook. Peter Platt's compelling new book, Shakespeare's

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Cultures of Witnessing: Law and the York Plays by Emma Lipton Elisabeth Dutton (bio) Emma Lipton. Cultures of Witnessing: Law and the York Plays. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. Pp. 248. $65. Records of the York plays are preserved in the York Memorandum Books, manuscripts that also contain administrative

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Staging America: The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Players by Jeffery Kennedy Beth Wynstra (bio) Jeffery Kennedy. Staging America: The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Players. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2023. Pp xii + 626. $49.95. Chapter 19 of Jeffery Kennedy's Staging America: The Artistic Legacy

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Bad Blood: Staging Race Between Early Modern England and Spain by Emily Weissbourd Dian Fox (bio) Emily Weissbourd. Bad Blood: Staging Race Between Early Modern England and Spain. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. Pp. v + 218. $55.00. Following the Reconquest's end in 1492, Spain expelled the Jews and Muslims

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Vows, Veils, and Masks: The Performance of Marriage in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill by Beth Wynstra Alexander Pettit (bio) Beth Wynstra. Vows, Veils, and Masks: The Performance of Marriage in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill. Studies in Theatre History and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2023. Pp x + 214. $92.50. In

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race by Noémie Ndiaye Baltasar Fra-Molinero (bio) Noémie Ndiaye. Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 358 pp. + 12 color plates. Hardcover and e-book $64.95

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity by Kate Mattingly Crystal U. Davis (bio) Kate Mattingly. Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2023. Pp. ix + 244. $85.00. In Shaping Dance Canons: Criticism, Aesthetics, and Equity, Kate Mattingly offers an

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Julie Stone Peters Subha Mukherji (bio) Julie Stone Peters. Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Crystal U. Davis is Associate Professor of Dance at University of Maryland, College Park. Her research explores implicit bias and how privilege manifests in the body. Her research has been published in the Journal of Dance Education, in the Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education, and in her book, Dance and Belonging:

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction:Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction Graley Herren (bio) and Niamh J. O'Leary (bio) "Every age creates its own Shakespeare," asserts Marjorie Garber at the beginning of Shakespeare After All. "What is often described as the timelessness of Shakespeare, the transcendent qualities for which his plays have been praised around

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Longing to Stay Tied:Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet as a Work of Creative Criticism Amy Muse (bio) I miss you, I miss you, I would give anything to have you back, anything at all. While Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (2020) is offered to us as a work of fiction, a historical novel, it might equally be understood and perhaps even more deeply appreciated

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Decommissioning the Bard:Chloe Gong's These Violent Delights as Anticolonial Edutainment Vanessa I. Corredera (bio) In an illustration of perfect cosmic timing, the week of November 27, 2022 saw two distinct public incidents involving the British Royal Family that worked serendipitously with one another to prompt necessary confrontations

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Paul Griffiths's let me tell you, Hamlet, and the Intertextual Mode of Literary Adaptation Hannibal Hamlin (bio) Paul Griffths's let me tell you (2008) is a novel written in the first person, in the voice of Ophelia, using only those words assigned to her in Shakespeare's Hamlet. This formal conceit qualifies the work as Oulipian, as most

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "The world to me is but a ceaseless storm":Pericles, The Porpoise, and the Resistance of Exile Rebekah Bale (bio) The adaptation of Shakespeare's plays into fiction has a long history. Early on it was considered a useful way to introduce the stories of the plays to children, as in Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, and more

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Queering The Winter's Tale in Jeanette Winterson's The Gap of Time Niamh J. O'Leary (bio) In 2013, Hogarth Press, the imprint of Penguin Random House founded by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, announced an exciting new project: The Hogarth Shakespeare. Conceived as an ambitious effort to retell some portion of the Shakespeare canon, the series

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "The Isle Is Full of Noises": the Many Tempests of Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed Melissa Caldwell (bio) Hag-Seed, Meta-Adaptation, and Paratext Drama, as Julie Sanders has written, is "an inherently adaptive art," but the line between production and adaptation is not always clear.1 Differences between the interpretation of an original text

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Prospero of Wonderland; or, Miranda Carroll, Author of Station Eleven Graley Herren (bio) In Jorge Luis Borges's short story "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote," the narrator marvels at Menard's rewriting—his literal word-for-word replication—of Don Quixote. The story works on one level as a lampoon of pretentious literary criticism

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: From R.U.R. to Westworld:Personal Revolt, Digital Technology, and the Making of a New Robot Ur-text Bella Poynton (bio) The 100th anniversary of Karel Čapek's formative play R.U.R. (1920), or Rossum's Universal Robots, fell during 2020, a challenging year for live theatre due to the COVID-19 pandemic.1 The original production of R.U.R

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Thomas, Lord Cromwell Recontextualized:An Economic Fable in Response to The Merchant of Venice Igor Djordjevic (bio) The True Chronicle Historie of the Whole Life and Death of Thomas Lord Cromwell by "W.S.," printed in 1602, was first performed by the Lord Chamberlain's Men around 1599, and it remained part of the company's repertory.1

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England: Drama, Law, Emotion by Penelope Geng Jessica Winston (bio) Penelope Geng, Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England: Drama, Law, Emotion. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021, Pp. xiv + 257 + 9 b/w illus. $75.00. Studies in early modern law and literature have emphasized professional

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Shadows of the Enlightenment: Tragic Drama during Europe's Age of Reason ed. by Blair Hoxby Daniel Gustafson (bio) Blair Hoxby(ed). Shadows of the Enlightenment: Tragic Drama during Europe's Age of Reason. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022. Pp. vii + 320. $99.95. The fate of eighteenth-century tragedy in the long

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Living with Shakespeare: Saint Helen's Parish, London, 1593-1598 by Geoffrey Marsh Christopher Highley (bio) Geoffrey Marsh. Living with Shakespeare: Saint Helen's Parish, London, 1593-1598. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. Pp. 512 + 170 color illus. $29.95. This is the latest of several recent books about the

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Theatre of Anger: Radical Transnational Performance in Contemporary Berlin by Olivia Landry Sophie Nield (bio) Olivia Landry. Theatre of Anger: Radical Transnational Performance in Contemporary Berlin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. Pp 256 + 8 b/w illus. $79. This book opens with a book burning. In May 2016, as

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Making a Play for God: The Sacre Rappresentzioni of Renaissance Florence by Nerida Newbigin Pamela M. King (bio) Nerida Newbigin. Making a Play for God: The Sacre Rappresentzioni of Renaissance Florence. 2 Vols. Toronto: Victoria University Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 2021. Pp. 1039 + 194 illus. $60. Making

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Theatre of Anthony Neilson by Trish Reid Marc Shaw (bio) Trish Reid. The Theatre of Anthony Neilson. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017. Pp viii + 215. $60. Trish Reid's book The Theatre of Anthony Neilson is the first full-length study of the Scottish playwright's work, making it an important moment in Anthony Neilson

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Le Théâtre du Soleil: The First Fifty-Five Years by Béatrice Picon-Vallin Nancy Jones (bio) Picon-Vallin, Béatrice. Le Théâtre du Soleil: The First Fifty-Five Years. Translated by Judith G. Miller. Routledge, 2021. v + 466 pages. Cloth $160.00, Paper $44.95, eBook $33.71. Originally published in French in 2014, Béatrice Picon-Vallin's

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Igor Djordjevic is an Associate Professor of Early Modern English literature at York University and the Chair of the English Department at Glendon College. He is the author of Holinshed's Nation: Ideals, Memory, and Practical Policy in the Chronicles (Ashgate, 2010) and King John (Mis)Remembered: The Dunmow Chronicle, the

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “It’s only a play”: Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879), Adamson’s Wife (2019), and the Relevance of Historical Theatre Catherine Quirk (bio) Between late 2017 and the closure of the theatres in March 2020, in London alone there were at least a dozen productions of Henrik Ibsen’s plays. To mention only a few of these, at the Almeida, Robert

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “Home Away from Home”: Diasporic Consciousness and Everyday Third Places in Tom Murphy’s Conversations on a Homecoming (1985) and Inua Ellams’ Barber Shop Chronicles (2017) Moonyoung Hong (bio) For much of its history, the geography of modern drama has been that of “home.”1 But the ideas of home and belonging have increasingly stirred

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Staging the Market Mechanisms of Medieval Mating in Den utro hustru Mads Larsen (bio) Scandinavia’s only extant Shrovetide farce, Den utro hustru (The Unfaithful Wife), embodies a unique ethos in regard to mating and gender relations.1 The school play, presumably written by a university-educated teacher around 1500, dramatizes humanistic

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: From Wilder’s Our Town (1938) to Churchill’s Escaped Alone (2016): Mediatization and the Collapse of the Large Into the Local Scott Proudfit (bio) Though separated by almost a century, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (1938) and Caryl Churchill’s Escaped Alone (2016) investigate the same central question: what is the relationship between the

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous: A Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual ed. by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and Robert Myers Samar Zahrawi (bio) Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and Robert Myers (eds). The Theatre of Sa’dallah Wannous: A Critical Study of the Syrian Playwright and Public Intellectual. Cambridge: Cambridge

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Shakespeare and Latinidad ed. by Trevor Boffone and Carla Della Gatta Matthieu Chapman (bio) Trevor Boffone and Carla Della Gatta (eds.). Shakespeare and Latinidad. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. Pp. xvii + 256. $105.00 hardcover, $24.95 paper, $24.95 ebook. “There is little need,” Ruben Espinosa has observed

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Hercules and the King of Portugal: Icons of Masculinity and Nation in Calderón’s Spain by Dian Fox Victoria M. Muñoz (bio) Dian Fox. Hercules and the King of Portugal: Icons of Masculinity and Nation in Calderón’s Spain. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. Pp. 336 + 5 illus. $55.00 Hardback and ebook. Hercules and

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Comedy and Crisis: Pieter Langendijk, the Dutch, and the Speculative Bubbles of 1720 by Joyce Goggin and Frans De Bruyn Fran Teague (bio) Joyce Goggin and Frans De Bruyn. Comedy and Crisis: Pieter Langendijk, the Dutch, and the Speculative Bubbles of 1720. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 280 + 12 b/w

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Theatres of Feeling: Affect, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage by Jean I. Marsden Fiona Ritchie (bio) Jean I. Marsden. Theatres of Feeling: Affect, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 223. $105 hardcover, $28.99 paper, $23.00 ebook. In 1763, James