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Modern Drama

Volume 50, Number 4, Winter 2007

E-ISSN: 1712-5286 Print ISSN: 0026-7694

Table of Contents

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The Prompter’s Box: Modern Drama and Literary Criticism
pp. 475-486
A Difficult Birth: Bringing Staging Studies to the Pages of Modern Drama
pp. 487-499
Keywords:

A.C. Edwards, Modern Drama, Benjamin Bennett, Gerald Weales, staging of plays, performance, Frederick Marker, Martin Puchner, Erika Fischer-Lichte

The Gas Heart: Disfigurement and the Dada Body
pp. 500-516
Keywords:

Dadaism, avant-garde theatre, Tristan Tzara, The Gas Heart, disfigurement, facial injury, reconstructive surgery, World War I, theatre and medicine, drama and medicine

Antígona and the Modernity of the Dead
pp. 517-531
Keywords:

Peru, Antigone, Antígona, adaptations of Antigone, Teresa Ralli, José Watanabe, Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani, the disappeared, Peru, truth and reconciliation

Waiting for Recognition: An Aristotle for “Non-Aristotelian” Drama
pp. 532-544
Keywords:

Aristotle’s Poetics, plot, reversal, recognition, suffering, ‘non-Aristotelian drama’, Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Mother Courage, Fefu and Her Friends, Terence Cave, Elizabeth Belfiore

Opening the Windshield: Death of a Salesman and Theatrical Liberalism
pp. 545-564
Keywords:

Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, liberalism, theatricality, American Jewish culture

The Canonization of Eugene O’Neill
pp. 565-581
Keywords:

O’Neill, Nathan, canonization, canon

Teaching Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
pp. 582-600
Keywords:

African, African American, Christianity, embodiment, history, memory, Middle Passage, possession, race, ritual, self-determination, slavery, spirituality, Yoruban

Fun and Games with George and Nick: Competitive Masculinity in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
pp. 601-619
Keywords:

masculinity, triangulation, gender, performance, competition, homosociality

Teaching A Doll House, Rachel, and Marisol: Domestic Ideals, Possessive Individuals, and Modern Drama
pp. 620-637
Keywords:

Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House, Angelina Weld Grimké, Rachel, José Rivera, Marisol, possessive individualism, modern drama, self

Reviews

Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen (review)
pp. 638-640
Interrogating America Through Theatre and Performance (review)
pp. 640-642
Staging Motherhood: British Women Playwrights, 1956 to the Present (review)
pp. 642-644
Postdramatic Theatre (review)
pp. 644-647
Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen (review)
pp. 647-649
The Theatre of Martin Crimp (review)
pp. 649-651
Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama (review)
pp. 651-653

Contributors

Contributors
pp. 654-656

Index

Index to Volume 50, 2007
pp. 657-659

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