Text & Presentation
From 1980 – 2021, The Comparative Drama Conference Series has been publishing the best papers presented at its annual meetings, keeping readers current in scholarship and performance aesthetics in drama internationally. Text & Presentation’s articles have framed dramatic discourse, identified emerging trends, and challenged established views. Each volume consists of about a dozen articles which have passed the mandated anonymous peer review. For back issues, visit www.McFarlandpub.com.
The 45th Comparative Drama Conference marks a new change for publishing the best papers from the conference. Going forward from 2023, the conference will be partnering with the journal Comparative Drama to publish the best papers from the conference (as well as book and performance reviews) in a special double issue every year.
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Participants in the conference are invited to submit their papers for publication consideration to the editor of Text & Presentation. The editor of this year’s publication, Dr. Amy Muse, can be reached at ammuse@stthomas.edu. Manuscripts should be formatted according to the T & P style. Authors are expected to expand their manuscripts beyond presentation-length conference papers into full-length scholarly essays, with a maximum length of 25 double-spaced pages (including notes, works cited, and photos). Each volume also features several book reviews by noted scholars.
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Any questions regarding paper submissions should be sent to the Editor at Amy Muse: ammuse@stthomas.edu.
Text and Presentation, 2019
Acknowledgments vii
Preface 1
A Conversation with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Baron Kelly) 5
A Raisin in the Sun at 60: A Conversation (Teresa Gilliams, Nathaniel G. Nesmith, Janna Segal, Baron Kelly and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins) 27
Radical Resurrections: A Performance History of John Brown’s
Body (Victoria Lynn Scrimer) 49
Deep When: A Basic Design Philosophy for Addressing Holidays
in Historical Dramas (Michael Schweikardt) 63
Uncanniness and Alienation in Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit and
Airline Highway (M. Scott Phillips) 78
Precious Resources: Cultural Archiving in the Post-Apocalyptic
Worlds of Mr. Burns and Station Eleven (Paul D. Reich) 96
Past the Lyrical: Mythographic Metatheatre in Marina Carr’s
Phaedra Backwards (Phillip Zapkin) 113
Infidelity, Adaptation, and Textuality: Directing Late Medieval
and Early Modern French Farce (Scott D. Taylor) 130
Rectories Meet “One-Hour” Rooms: Williams on Summery and
Eccentric Loves (Jeffrey B. Loomis) 148
A Portrait of the Krapp as a Young[er] Man: Michael Laurence’s
Krapp, 39 (William Hutchings) 161
Waiting for Rothko (Doug Phillips) 174
Review of Literature: Selected Books
Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (Doug Phillips) 189
Trevor Boffone, Teresa Marrero and Chantal Rodriguez, eds.
Encuentro: Latinx Performance for the New American Theater
(Osvaldo Sandoval-Leon) 193
Lopamudra Basu. Ayad Akhtar, the American Nation, and Its Others
After 9/11: Homeland Insecurity (Mahwash Shoaib) 197
Max Shulman and J. Chris Westgate, eds. Performing the Progressive
Era: Immigration, Urban Life, and Nationalism on Stage (Patrick Midgley) 200
Selby Wynn Schwartz. The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and Their
Afterlives (Alicia M. Goodman) 204
David Palmer, ed. Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama (Melissa Rynn Porterfield) 207
Index 211
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