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Modern Drama

Volume 51, Number 1, Spring 2008

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

Table of Contents

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Jane Harrison and the Savage Dionysus: Archaeological Voyages, Ritual Origins, Anthropology, and the Modern Theatre
pp. 1-41
Keywords:

aestheticism, anti-theatricality, anthropology, Hellenism, modernism, primitivism, ritual

"Who's Selling Here?": Sounds Like The Music Man Is Selling and We're Buying
pp. 42-59
Keywords:

high/low/middlebrow, boys' bands, barbershop quartets, the musical, capitalism, patriotism, individualism, anti-intellectualism

Homosexual Panic in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
pp. 60-72
Keywords:

Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, homosexuality, homosexual panic, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet, Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle

"Vinløv i håret": The Relationship between Women, Language, and Power in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler
pp. 73-83
Keywords:

Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, language, power, gender, modernism

Medea as Material: Heiner Müller, Myth, and Text
pp. 84-103
Keywords:

Despoiled Shore Medeamaterial Landscape with Argonauts, Heiner Müller, Medea, adaptation, remaking

From Coward and Rattigan to Osborne: Or the Enduring Importance of Look Back in Anger
pp. 104-124
Keywords:

Dan Rebellato, The Deep Blue Sea, John Osborne, Look Back in Anger, Noël Coward, Terrence Rattigan, The Vortex, anger, cognition, hysteria, interactional analysis, perception, post-war British Drama, well-made play

Bombing (on) the Border: Ali and Ali and the aXes of Evil as Transnational Agitprop
pp. 126-144
Keywords:

agitprop, political cabaret, multiculturalism, diaspora, radical performance, Canadian theatre

Reviews

Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency (review)
pp. 145-147
Staging Black Feminisms: Identity, Politics, Performance (review)
pp. 147-149
A History of Asian American Theatre (review)
pp. 149-152
Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard (review)
pp. 152-154
The Plays of Beth Henley: A Critical Study (review)
pp. 154-156
Stage Fright, Animals and Other Theatrical Problems (review)
pp. 156-158
The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel (review)
pp. 158-160
The Total Work of Art: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace (review)
pp. 160-162

Contributors

Contributors
pp. 163-164

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