History and Drama: Essays in Honour of Bernhard Reitz (MUSE - Mainz University Studies in English)

Name: History and Drama: Essays in Honour of Bernhard Reitz (MUSE - Mainz University Studies in English)
Brand: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
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Contents: 1. History ['Tis 60 Years Since...: B.Reitz - Vita Brevis; 'Tis 14 Years Since...: B.Reitz & CDE]; 2. Drama [12 Propositions Already in Decay; London Patriots; History/Herstory: Some Memories of B.Reitz; 'Greatest Event in the History of Colored Americans: Du Bois' Pageant Star of Ethiopia: Washington Version]; 3. On History & Drama [Omai, the Death of Captain Cook, and Historical Pantomime; Republican Commonwealth or Monarchy? Edward Howard's Anti-feminist Comedy Six Days Adventure, or the New Utopia, 1671; Liz Lochhead's Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off: Performance, Poetry & Iconoclastic Assessment in Contemporary Scottish Historical Drama; German-Scots Literary Relations; Too Much Information: Glossing The Ancient Mariner; French Classical Drama and its Reception in England; Autobiographical Formation of Modern American Theatre: Strindberg & O'Neill; Soundness of George III and Mad 18th-Century History; Stoppard's Historiographic Eye; John Arden & Margaretta D'Arcy: Failure of Communication with the Audience; History as a Retro-Scenario: Short Note on Alan Bennett's History Boys; Hybrid Reconstruction of Black British History in the Musical The Big Life; Re-Visiting Dramatic History: Strindberg & Contemporary British Theatre; Religious Wars of France on the English Stage; Contemporary Political Drama and its Claim to Authenticity; Performativity of Corporeal Pain in Sophocles' Dramatic Discourse; Nathaniel Hawthorne as Ironist Historiographer, with a Reading of The May-Pole of Merry Mount; Fictionalizing Shakespeare Today: J.Smiley's A Thousand Acres, M.Warner's Indigo & I.McEwan's Amsterdam; Colored Museums: Cultural Segregation, Black American Drama & Topdogs/Underdogs of African-American History; Passionate Hamlet; Drama of Alan Judd's Fiction; Old/New History in the English Drama of the 1970s/80s]

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 388
Release Date:: 2006-12-18
Publication Date:: 2006-12-18
Publisher:: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 3884768816

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