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Blood Brothers Bows out of West End after 20-Year Run. Brief article Aug 6, 2012 184
Lukacs/Ibsen: tragedy, selfhood, and "real life" in The Master Builder and When We Dead Awaken. Storm, William Mar 22, 2012 9186
"I just die for some authority!": barriers to Utopia in Howard Brenton's Greenland. Adiseshiah, Sian Mar 22, 2012 5603
"Where's my fool?": Lear motifs in Rigoletto. Barry, Barbara Mar 22, 2012 10494
Mickey & Minnie's Magical Journey. Jan 1, 2012 452
A dance on contrasting platforms: African tradition and revolutionary aesthetics in Esiaba Irobi's plays. Osu, Leon Onyewuchi Critical essay Sep 2, 2011 7370
Medieval Maithili stagecraft in the Nepalamandala: the Bhaktapur school. Yadav, Ramawatar Report Jul 1, 2011 7308
Mancunian Rhapsodies Catherine Wood on the manchester international festival. Wood, Catherine Jun 22, 2011 884
Jewish ethics and play: the exaltation of the possible. Pava, Moses L. Essay Mar 1, 2011 5650
"Every word doth almost tell my name": ambiguity, authority, and authenticity in Shakespeare's dramatic letters. Bolton, Matthew Critical essay Jan 1, 2011 6752
Aristophanes and Douglas Young. Marshall, C.W. Dec 22, 2010 2773
"The Kingdom of Heaven within us": inner (world) peace in Gilbert Murray's Trojan Women. Perris, Simon Dec 22, 2010 6885
Invitation to the dance: Bhagavata Mela, Yakshagana, Kuchipudi, Krishnattam. Critical essay Dec 1, 2010 726
Celebrating idleness: Antony and Cleopatra and play theory. Scherer, Abigail Sep 22, 2010 8682
The unqueering of As You Like It. Tracy, Ryan Critical essay Jul 1, 2010 2459
Pericles, Paul, and Protestantism. Finkelstein, Richard Report Jun 22, 2010 12063
"Hilda, harnessed to a purpose": Elizabeth Robins, Ibsen, and the vote. Joannou, Maroula Report Jun 22, 2010 8491
Emily Wardill. Helfand, Glen Jun 22, 2010 564
A fresh assessment of Italian Baroque literature: poets and dramatists. Pallota, Augustus Critical essay Jun 22, 2010 5914
Did Hellenistic kings send letters to Asoka? Hinuber, Von Oskar Critical essay Apr 1, 2010 3663
"Death is more heroic on the soccer field ...": the cult of athletics in Melchior Vischer's Soccer Players and Indians. Dawson, Rebeccah Critical essay Mar 22, 2010 9690
"Those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat": the politics of Jason Miller's That Championship Season. Fury, Frank P. Critical essay Mar 22, 2010 3598
"Mi carne, mi sangre, mis ilusiones": the collision of words and worlds in Milcha Sanchez-Scott's The Cuban Swimmer. Sanders, Shelly Critical essay Mar 22, 2010 3445
Sport in Artur Azevedo's revues: a reflection of developments in late 19th century Rio de Janeiro Society. Knijnik, Jorge; de Melo, Victor Andrade Essay Mar 22, 2010 5633
Boys to men or boys to boys? Biff Loman and Brick Pollitt: surviving football in Death of a Salesman and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Vanderwerken, David Critical essay Mar 22, 2010 4460
J.R.R. Tolkien's "Leaf by Niggle": an allegory in transformation. Nelson, Marie Critical essay Mar 22, 2010 7170
Coriolanus: inordinate passions and powers in personal and political governance. Langis, Unhae Critical essay Mar 22, 2010 9747
The biblical intertext in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus (or, Saul and David in eighteenth-century Vienna). Aschkenasy, Nehama Critical essay Mar 22, 2010 7517
Chinese ethnicity and the American heroic artisan in Henry Grimm's The Chinese Must Go (1879). Ou, Hsin-yun Critical essay Mar 22, 2010 8258
Till death do us part: communion, alchemy, and endings in the work of Frank McGuinness. Jordan, Eamonn Critical essay Mar 22, 2010 7358
George Peele and the judgment of Elizabeth I. Reynolds, Paige Martin Critical essay Mar 22, 2010 7316
Lavinia as coauthor of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. Packard, Bethany Critical essay Mar 22, 2010 7859
The Roman Actor, metadrama, authority, and the audience. Angus, Bill Critical essay Mar 22, 2010 7659
Love and money in the Merchant of Venice. Harp, Richard Critical essay Jan 1, 2010 4907
The wound that never heals. Crapanzano, Vincent Critical essay Jan 1, 2010 12252
Aristophanes's response to the Peloponnesian war and the defeat of the comic hero. Kotini, Vassiliki Critical essay Jan 1, 2010 6828
The "To be, or not to be" speech: evidence, conventional wisdom, and the editing of Hamlet. Hirsh, James Critical essay Jan 1, 2010 13655
Declamation and character in the Fletcher-Massinger plays. Curran, John E., Jr. Essay Jan 1, 2010 14529
Voices of violence: medieval French farce and the Dover Cliff scene in King Lear. Wheatley, Edward Critical essay Dec 22, 2009 6852
Doing the usual things: gender, race, and inwardness in Harley Granville Barker's The Marrying of Ann Leete and The Secret Life. Wixson, Christopher Critical essay Dec 22, 2009 10111
Remounting, remembering: gendered memorials and colleen Wagner's: the monument. Luger, Moberley Critical essay Dec 1, 2009 9103
Playwriting in three major Nigerian languages. Ilo, Isaiah Critical essay Dec 1, 2009 5431
Fletcher, Massinger, and Roman imperial character. Curran, John E., Jr. Critical essay Sep 22, 2009 16282
"Another play on Salem witch trials": Lion Feuchtwanger, communists, and Nazis. Maierhofer, Waltraud Critical essay Sep 22, 2009 9702
The earliest Middle English interludes. Lundeen, Stephanie Thompson Critical essay Sep 22, 2009 8750
Shakespeare's words: quotes, misquotes, and lost contexts. Jolliffe, Lee Jul 1, 2009 1244
Writing the Landscape of Memory : Ina Cesaire's Memoires d'Isles. Miyasaki, June Critical essay Jun 22, 2009 7675
Contesting constancy in The Merchant of Venice. Blanchard, Jane Critical essay Jun 22, 2009 4966
Actors' names as textual evidence. Kathman, David Critical essay Jun 1, 2009 5218
Theatre reviewing: performance versus criticism. Wilkinson, Kate Essay Mar 22, 2009 6678
Roman world, Egyptian earth: cognitive difference and empire in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Thomas Crane, Mary Mar 22, 2009 6847
Dumb reading: the noise of the mute in Jonson's Epicene. Curtin, Adrian Essay Mar 22, 2009 7196
The Scriblerian stage and page: Three Hours After Marriage, Pope's "minor" poems, and the problem of genre-history. Mannheimer, Katherine Mar 22, 2009 10448
"Whom seek ye, sirs?": the logic of searching in the York Herod and the Magi. Rice, Nicole R. Essay Mar 22, 2009 10458
Alexandra Bachzetsis: Kunsthalle Basel. Scharrer, Eva Feb 1, 2009 581
Dux Moraud: criminality and salvation in an East Anglian play. Davidson, Clifford Critical essay Jan 1, 2009 7634
Old Plays and the General Reader: an Essay in Praise of the Regents Renaissance Drama Series. Essay Jan 1, 2009 10602
Where Iago Lies: Home, honesty and the Turk in Othello. Critical essay Jan 1, 2009 7866
Cambridge Shakespeare, Spring 2009. Jan 1, 2009 837
"A Carrion Death": the theme of the gold casket in The Merchant of Venice. Stone, James W. Critical essay Jan 1, 2009 8259
Domestic economies in The Taming of the Shrew: amassing cultural credit. Chamberlain, Stephanie Critical essay Jan 1, 2009 9774
"I woo'd thee with my sword, / and won thy love doing thee injuries": the erotic economies of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Rieger, Gabriel Critical essay Jan 1, 2009 5679
"What in me is dark/illumine" (PL 1:22-23): the "other" body of Samson Agonistes. Fernandez, Jane Lilly Critical essay Jun 22, 2008 9301
Zimmerman's Metamorphoses: mythic revision as a ritual for grief. Chirico, Miriam M. Jun 22, 2008 10670
Gimcracks legacy: sex, wealth, and the theater of experimental philosophy. Chico, Tita Mar 22, 2008 8183
The paradoxes of slavery in Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko. Jaher, Diana Mar 22, 2008 8089
Sheridan, The School for Scandal, and aggression. Thompson, James Mar 22, 2008 3891
Recent studies in Tudor and Stuart drama. Platt, Peter G. Critical essay Mar 22, 2008 26795
The Merchant Formerly Known as Jew[1]: Redefining the Rhetoric of Merchantry in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Rich, Jennifer Jan 1, 2008 10219
Las visitas en Dona Rosita la soltera: ?ambientales o reflejos? Brakel, Arthur Report Jan 1, 2008 3553
A linguagem obscena do parvo no Auto da Barca do Inferno de Gil Vicente: uma luta de palavras pelos espacos divinos. Martinez, Monserrat Bores Report Jan 1, 2008 3928
"To think these trifles some-thing": Shakespearean playbooks and the claims of authorship. Kastan, David Scott Critical essay Jan 1, 2008 5101
The Merchant of Venice, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the perils of Shakespearean appropriation. Bayer, Mark Dec 22, 2007 11359
Sacerdotal vestiges in The Tempest. Reid, Robert L. Dec 22, 2007 8594
Beyond Caliban's curses: the decolonial feminist literacy of Sycorax. Lara, Irene Critical essay Nov 1, 2007 9824
May-June 2007: "dramatic moments". Schneider, Richard, Jr. May 1, 2007 603
The failure of the modern Aesop (1) in anglophone Cameroonian drama: the example of Hansel Ndumbe Eyoh's The Inheritance (2). Besong, Bate Mar 22, 2007 8071
Anti-Semitism, surrogacy, and the invocation of Mohammed in the Play of the Sacrament. Chemers, Michael Mark Mar 22, 2007 13067
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Erasmus's De Copia, and sentential ambiguity. Yu, Jeffrey J. Mar 22, 2007 10806
A playwright's spiritual coming out: 'Matthew Passion' looks at redemption through the prism of homosexuality. Blaney, Retta Mar 16, 2007 809
McNally after the 'gay Jesus' play. Frontain, Raymond-Jean Mar 1, 2007 3588
'Lane, you're a perfect pessimist': pessimism and the English Fin de siecle. Shrimpton, Nicholas Critical essay Jan 1, 2007 8254
Morose's turban. Sebek, Barbara Jan 1, 2007 2497
"I care not, let naturals love nations": cosmopolitan clowning. Brown, Pamela Allen Jan 1, 2007 3025
Lives and letters in Antony and Cleopatra. Stewart, Alan Jan 1, 2007 11476
Room for doubts in a nutshell: (in)finite spaces vs. spatial (in)definition in Hamlet. Gellert, Marcell Essay Jan 1, 2007 5251
Performing aboriginalities: a cross-cultural perspective. Achitei, Simona Critical essay Jan 1, 2007 5311
Edwin Forrest's redding up: elocution, theater, and the performance of the frontier. Rebhorn, Matthew Dec 22, 2006 9654
Opposing forces: (re)playing Pocahontas and the politics of Indian removal on the antebellum stage. Jaroff, Rebecca Dec 22, 2006 8416
The bride wielded a razor: images of women on the blackface stage of James McIntyre and Thomas Heath. Pasternack, Leslie Dec 22, 2006 7035
Verbal and visual rhetorics of cancer: defying silence in Margaret Edson, Audre Lorde and Jo Spence's works. Florescu, Catalina Florina Critical essay Nov 1, 2006 10145
The first Edinburgh and London editions of John Home's Douglas and the play's early stage history. McGinley, Kevin J. Critical essay Oct 1, 2006 6420
Realms beyond the mountains: notes on Kenneth Rexroth. Woodcock, George Critical essay Sep 22, 2006 3547
The three faces of Dick Cheney. Schroth, Raymond A. Jun 30, 2006 1101
Edmund Eyre's The Maid of Normandy; or, Charlotte Corday in Anglo-Irish docudrama. Nielsen, Wendy C. Jun 22, 2006 9029
From the ridiculous to the sublime: Ovidian and Neoplatonic registers in A Midsummer Night's Dream. May 1, 2006 8295
Review of Cambridge Shakespeare, Spring 2006. May 1, 2006 562
"With Honour Quit the Fort": Ambivalent Colonialism in Dryden's Amboyna. May 1, 2006 8370
Marriage in late-medieval German Easter and Shrovetide plays. Classen, Albrecht Mar 22, 2006 10916
Remembering Nagasaki. Brief Article Feb 1, 2006 134
The Protestant context of George Peele's "pleasant conceited" Old Wives Tale. Ardolino, Frank Jan 1, 2006 9213
Syntactically honest: Iago's character as reflected in Janos Acs's 1989 play-text. Tabi, Katalin Critical essay Jan 1, 2006 5122
Language and ritual in T. S. Eliot's sweeney agonistes. Szele, Balint Critical essay Jan 1, 2006 6406
Voices from the Irish margin: Sean O'Casey's The Shadow of a Gunman and Christina Reid's Joyriders. Kao, Wei H. Critical essay Jan 1, 2006 7100
Early Asian drama: conversations and convergences. Salisbury, Eve Critical essay Sep 22, 2005 1950
When chaos is come again: narrative and narrative analysis in Othello. Macaulay, Marcia Critical essay Sep 22, 2005 8829
The trappings of All's Well That Ends Well. Clark, Ira Critical essay Sep 22, 2005 10728
Shakespeare's "still-vexed" Tempest. Hunt, Maurice Critical essay Sep 22, 2005 7439
Female Spectacle as Liberation in Margaret Cavendish's Plays. May 1, 2005 4550
Space, violence, and bodies in Middleton and Cary. Heller, Jennifer L. Mar 22, 2005 7486
Staging passion in Ford's The Lover's Melancholy. Hopkins, Lisa Mar 22, 2005 6289
"Bodied Forth": spectator, stage, and actor in the early modern theater. Low, Jennifer A. Mar 22, 2005 12033
Thomas Heywood's The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject and the fall of Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex. Lindberg, Kevin Mar 22, 2005 9099
"In better places": space, identity, and alienation in Sarah Kane's Blasted. Wixson, Christopher Mar 22, 2005 6751
Frank McGuinness and the Sons of Ulster. Kiberd, Declan Jan 1, 2005 9404
Melodrama, convention, and rape. Branca, R. Rene Jan 1, 2005 4720
A Dying Gaul: the signifying phallus and Tennessee Williams's "Three Players of a Summer Game". Bak, John Dec 22, 2004 13545
Exorcizing blue devils: The Night of the Iguana as Tennessee Williams's ultimate confessional. Haake, C. Allen Dec 22, 2004 5557
"Renouncing change": salvation and the sacred in Brian Friel's Faith Healer. Strain, Margaret M. Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 9061
'To fly by those nets': violence and identity in Tom Murphy's A Whistle in the Dark. Arrowsmith, Aidan Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 7145
Pastoral exhibits: narrating authenticities in Conor McPherson's The Weir. Jordan, Eamonn Sep 22, 2004 8896
Joanna Baillie's reflections on the passions: the "Introductory Discourse" and the properties of authorship. Brigham, Linda Sep 22, 2004 9541
Introduction: whither Shakespop? Taking stock of Shakespeare in popular culture. Abele, Elizabeth Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 4054
Hamlet, synecdoche and history: teaching the tropes of "new remembrance". Acheson, Katherine O. Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 10823
"Hamlet, Part Eight, The Revenge" or, sampling Shakespeare in a postmodern world. Smith, Kay H. Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 6781
Communicating social inclusiveness (1): Paul Slabolepszy's Fordsburg's Finest (2) (1997). van Deventer, M.A. Critical Essay Aug 1, 2004 6770
The alienated moralist in An Enemy of the People. Roshwald, Mordecai Critical Essay Jun 22, 2004 3972
Does Beatrice Joanna Have a Subtext. May 1, 2004 10014
'A young man's ghost': Lady Gregory and J. M. Synge. Pethica, James Critical Essay Mar 22, 2004 9718
Finding a voice: Augusta Gregory, Raftery, and cultural nationalism, 1899-1900. Hill, Judith Critical Essay Mar 22, 2004 7431
Lady Gregory and the feminine journey: The Gaol Gate, Grania, and The Story Brought by Brigit. Duncan, Dawn Critical Essay Mar 22, 2004 4873
Lady Gregory's 'humour of character': a Commedia approach to Spreading the News. Weitz, Eric Critical Essay Mar 22, 2004 5041
The uses of interpretation in Hamlet. Croxford, Leslie Critical Essay Jan 1, 2004 10646
Telling it like it isn't: the importance of the non-dit in Green's Sud. Armbrecht, Thomas J.D. Critical Essay Jan 1, 2004 6990
Haunted and haunting O'Neill. Lynch, Vivian Valvano Critical Essay Sep 22, 2003 1269
A memorable production of classic O'Casey. Krause, David Sep 22, 2003 1156
'They raigne ouer change, and doe their states maintaine': change, stasis, and postcoloniality in Frank McGuinness's Mutabilitie. Bertha, Csilla Critical Essay Sep 22, 2003 6738
The lost playing places of Lincolnshire. Stokes, James Sep 22, 2003 8476
Nonverbal theatrical elements in Ntozake Shange's for colored girls ... and Intissar Abdel-Fatah's Makhadet El-Kohl (The Kohl Pillow). Shayal, Dalia El- Sep 22, 2003 6345
The Tyrone anthology: authority in the last act of Long Day's Journey into Night. Dugan, Lawrence Sep 22, 2003 6243
Colonial drama revealed, or plays submitted for approval. Pelosi, Janette Jul 1, 2003 4919
Review of Lent Term: Cambridge Drama, 2003. Critical Essay May 1, 2003 955
The Maltese Janus: Frances Ebejer and his drama. Crow, Brian; Galea, Marco Apr 1, 2003 4889
The classical context of Ben Jonson's "other youth". Boehrer, Bruce Mar 22, 2003 8047
"Ears prejudicate" in Mariam and Duchess of Malfi. Green, Reina Mar 22, 2003 7347
Colonialism, Politics, and Romanization in John Fletcher's Bonduca. Jowitt, Claire Mar 22, 2003 8361
All right an assessment of Tom Stoppard's plays. Karwowski, Michael Critical Essay Mar 1, 2003 3039
On Shylock: a reassessment of Shakespeare's tragic Jew. (Arts and Letters). Lang, Allen A. Critical Essay Feb 1, 2003 2864
Hrotsvit's Sapientia: rhetorical power and women of wisdom. Richmond, Colleen D. Jan 1, 2003 5508
Cloud 9, metadrama, and the post-semiotics of the subject. Kiss, Attila Critical essay Jan 1, 2003 3951
The Re-Gendering of Mythic Figures in Three Shakespearean Dramas. (Language & Literature). Brief Article Mar 22, 2002 217
Ophelia's Distorted Marriage Rites in Shakespeare's Hamlet. (Language & Literature). Brief Article Mar 22, 2002 212
Weaving the Web of Gossip: Player Kings in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. (Language & Literature). Brief Article Mar 22, 2002 234
Shakespeare's Distracted Globe and Hamlet's Theory of Theatre. (Language & Literature). Brief Article Mar 22, 2002 232
Shakespeare's Others as Witnesses: The Role of Thersites in Troilus and Cressida. (Language & Literature). Brief Article Mar 22, 2002 213
Reclaiming McCullers: with her new play on author Carson McCullers, Sarah Schulman brings her empathetic outsider's eye to New York's mainstream theater scene. (theater). Shewey, Don Brief Article Feb 5, 2002 567
Unwitting redemption in Margaret Edson's Wit. Eads, Martha Greene Critical Essay Jan 1, 2002 5934
Um Auto de Gil Vicente and the tradition of comedy. Earle, T.F. Jan 1, 2002 4258
"Written on my tainted brow": woman and the exegetical tradition in The Tragedy of Mariam. Bennett, Lyn Sep 22, 2001 10802
Theatricality and cosmopolitanism in Hannah Cowley's The Belle's Stratagem. Wallace, Elizabeth Kowaleski Sep 22, 2001 7076
Hedda and Bailu: portraits of two "bored" women. He, Chengzhou Sep 22, 2001 7021
The Merchant of Venice and Shylock's "Christian Problem". Spiro, Jack D. Critical Essay Jul 1, 2001 2925
Flattery in Shakespeare's Othello: the relevance of Plutarch and Sir Thomas Elyot. Evans, Robert C. Mar 22, 2001 17964
Intercession, detraction, and just judgment in Othello. Hassel, R. Chris, Jr. Mar 22, 2001 10288
Emblems of folly in the first Othello: renaissance blackface, moor's coat, and "muckender". Hornback, Robert Mar 22, 2001 11821
"Othello/me": racial drag and the pleasures of boundary-crossing with Othello. Marks, Elise Mar 22, 2001 9914
As You Like It, Rosalynde, and Mutuality. STROUT, NATHANIEL Critical Essay Mar 22, 2001 8235
Questioning History in Cymbeline. CRUMLEY, J. CLINTON Critical Essay Mar 22, 2001 7452
Knowledge and Belief in The Winter's Tale. LIM, WALTER S. H. Critical Essay Mar 22, 2001 7539
Giving Voice to Women: Teaching Feminist Approaches to the Mystery Plays. Normington, Katie Critical Essay Mar 22, 2001 10435
James Kelman (3). Bernstein, Stephen Sep 22, 2000 4723
`Life Is a Dream'. CAIN, BILL Jul 28, 2000 1668
The Urner Tellenspiel of 1512: Strategies of Early Political Drama. WALSH, MARTIN W. Jun 22, 2000 6818
CAESAR TALKS, CROWD WALKS. FRITH, KELLEE Jun 1, 2000 1392
Dialectica historica. Valdivieso, L. Teresa Jan 1, 2000 2988
Aspects of Africanness in August Wilson's drama: reading 'The Piano Lesson' through Wole Soyinka's drama. Bissiri, Amadou Mar 22, 1996 9457
Recent studies in Tudor and Stuart drama. Shapiro, James Bibliography Mar 22, 1996 15713
Marlowe and the disordered face of French history. Kirk, Andrew M. Mar 22, 1995 8919
"Marlowe's second city": the Jew as critic at the Rose in 1592. Kermode, Lloyd Edward Mar 22, 1995 6650
Male bonds and marriage in 'All's Well' and 'Much Ado.' (William Shakespeare's plays 'All's Well that Ends Well' and 'Much Ado About Nothing) Friedman, Michael D. Mar 22, 1995 7928
The Whore of Babylon and Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar.' Parker, Barbara L. Mar 22, 1995 7612
Amazon reflections in the Jacobean Queen's masque. Schwarz, Kathryn Mar 22, 1995 11784
Gender and the political subject in 'The Tragedy of Mariam.' Raber, Karen L. Mar 22, 1995 9156
'Bartholomew Fair' and Jonsonian tolerance. Pinciss, G.M. Mar 22, 1995 6509
Giving and taking in Massinger's tragicomedies. Turner, Robert Y. Mar 22, 1995 8954
Werewere Liking: from chaos to cosmos. Wright, Katheryn Jan 1, 1995 5961
My city was gone. Nadotti, Maria Jun 22, 1994 1268
Sri Lankan drama in English: metamorphosis through migration. Goonetilleke, D.C.R.A. Jun 22, 1994 6727
Arthur Miller's 'Last Yankee' - a male depressive. Tai, Stefan Mar 1, 1994 1052
On alienation in Hanoch Levin's theatre of protest. Milman, Yoseph Critical essay Jan 1, 1994 14515

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