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Komporaly, Jozefina. "Translating Hungarian Drama for the British and the American Stage." Hungarian Cultural Studies 14 (July 16, 2021): 164–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ahea.2021.434.

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Reflecting on my experience of translating contemporary Hungarian theater into English, this paper examines the fluidity of dramatic texts in their original and in translation, and charts collaborations between playwrights, translators and theater-makers. Mindful of the responsibility when working from a “minor” to a “major” language, the paper signals the discrepancy between the indigenous and foreign ‘recognition circuit’ and observes that translations from lesser-known languages are predominantly marked by a supply-driven agenda. Through case studies from the work of Transylvanian-Hungarian playwright András Visky, the paper argues that considerations regarding such key tenets of live theater as “speakability” and “performability” have to be addressed in parallel with correspondences in meaning, rhythm and spirit. The paper also points out that register and the status of certain lexical choices differ in various languages. Nuancing the trajectory of Visky’s plays in English translation, this paper makes a case for translations created with and for their originals, in full knowledge of the source and receiving cultures, and with a view to their potential in performance. The paper posits the need for multiple options encoded in the translation journey, including hypothetical concepts for future mise-en-scène, and situates the translator as a key participant in the performance making process.
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Truc, Le Quang. "Theater in education at Ho Chi Minh City Open University in Vietnam: students’ awareness of benefits and challenges in English and American literature classes." SOCIAL SCIENCES 9, no. 1 (June 2, 2020): 28–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.46223/hcmcoujs.soci.en.9.1.269.2019.

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This study examined whether the students participating in the drama program “THEATER IN EDUCATION: English and American Literature Classes’ Performances, 2017” at Ho Chi Minh City Open University in Vietnam perceived the benefits and challenges of the Theater in Education method as demonstrated in previous research in the field of foreign language learning. The data needed was collected by means of a questionnaire that consisted of seven questions. Similarities and differences between the findings of the study and what had been reported in previous research studies were then discussed. Hopefully, this study is informative for those interested in the adoption of the Theater in Education method in foreign literature classes at the faculty of foreign languages of a university.
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Roberts, Matthew. "Ajax in America, or Catharsis in the Time of Terrorism." New Theatre Quarterly 36, no. 4 (November 2020): 306–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x20000652.

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Originally funded by the US Department of Defense in 2009, Theater of War Productions’ first project, Theater of War, performs dramatic readings of Ajax at military bases, hospitals, and academic institutions throughout the United States. Developed by Bryan Doerries, Theater of War brings awareness to the epidemic of suicide and other forms of violence committed by American military service members in the wake of the United States’ so-called ‘war on terror’. But like Ajax, American military personnel typically turn to violence only after being betrayed by the institutions that they served. This article follows how Ajax’s more modern manifestation disrupts the tragic protagonist’s status as a sacrificial victim whose death precipitates tragedy’s cathartic effect, and challenges what René Girard calls the ‘scapegoat mechanism’ and its socio-political function. It argues that Ajax’s appearance as a cathartic figure in American society provokes spectators and artists to reckon with the conditions that can cause military personnel to act violently, and inspires protests against broader hegemonic socio-political structures and the military culture that sustains them. Matthew Roberts is Assistant Professor and Librarian for Comparative and World Literature, English, and Drama at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Donnery, Eucharia. "Process Drama in the Japanese University Classroom: Phase Three, The Homelessness Project." Scenario: A Journal of Performative Teaching, Learning, Research X, no. 1 (January 1, 2016): 18–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/scenario.10.1.2.

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The purpose of this paper is to describe the third phase of a process drama project, which focused thematically on the social issue of homelessness. Two classes of the elective English Communication course took part in this project twice weekly for ten weeks, in which the students examined homelessness from the perspectives of Japanese-Americans incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. The goal of the project was for students to develop an understanding of homelessness, while simultaneously losing awareness of English as a dreaded examination subject, and using the target language as a viable communicative tool instead. The techniques used in this project were manifold: tableau, family role-play, class role-play, writing-in-role, reaction-writing, research online in both Japanese and English to examine the nature of propaganda, online class discussions, as well as a guest lecturer session with a refugee speaker1. The trajectory of this discussion moves along a traditional Japanese Noh theater three-part narrative arc, called Jo-Ha-Kyu , “Enticement・Crux・Consolidation”.
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Stalter-Pace, Sunny. "Underground Theater." Transfers 5, no. 3 (December 1, 2015): 4–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2015.050302.

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This article begins from the premise that modern American drama provides a useful and understudied archive of representations of mobility. It focuses on plays set on the New York City subway, using the performance studies concept of “restored behavior” to understand the way that these plays repeat and heighten the experience of subway riding. Through their repetitions, they make visible the psychological consequences of ridership under the historical and cultural constraints of the interwar period. Elmer Rice's 1929 play The Subway is read as a particularly rich exploration of the consequences of female passenger's presumed passivity and sexualization in this era. The Subway and plays like it enable scholars of mobility to better understand the ways that theatrical texts intervene in cultural conversations about urban transportation.
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Loney, Glenn. "Talking to Carlos Gimenez, Creator of the Rajatabla in Caracas." New Theatre Quarterly 2, no. 7 (August 1986): 243–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00002219.

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knowledge of the theatre of South America tends to be shamefully scanty in the English-speaking world: yet the forces of rapid political change, both revolutionary and repressive, often provoke innovative theatrical responses. NTQ intends to pursue the study of theatre in this huge continent. The following interview was conducted by Glenn Loney with the young director Carlos Gimenez – a refugee from Argentina presently working with his Rajatabla troupe in Caracas, Venezuela – whose production of Bolivar was brought to the Public Theatre in New York last summer, with a return visit planned to include The Death of Garcia Lorca, both discussed in the following conversation. Glenn Loney is a widely published American drama critic, teacher, and writer, presently teaching on the doctoral theatre programme of the City University of New York, and working on the American volume in the Documents of Theatre History series for publication by Cambridge University Press.
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Djaha, Siti Susanti Mallida. "THE EMERGENCE OF NEW MEDIUM." Notion: Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture 1, no. 1 (May 30, 2019): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/notion.v1i1.712.

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This study aims at finding the development of new medium of drama in English literary history. From the very first emergence of drama, the plays that have been written were performed in the theater and in many kinds of theater were appears to represent some ideas from the society. As time passing by, these kind of theater had a kind of transformation to be the new medium that we called motion picture. This motion picture began with the silent movie, then it became the talking picture, and it was improved to be the cinema. In its development until today, which we had been known as the movie. This new medium emerged to replace the live theater performance especially in Edwardian era.
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Chansky, Dorothy. "American Higher Education and Dramatic Literature in(to) English." Theatre Survey 54, no. 3 (August 29, 2013): 419–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557413000288.

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In 2011 and 2012, I undertook a two-part survey to answer some large questions about the use of plays in translation in the higher education drama classroom in Anglophone North America and to test my ideas regarding the simultaneous ubiquity and invisibility of translation there. My project here is to report on that survey and to make clear why translation studies is ready to take a prominent role in theatre studies. U.S. colleges and universities constitute one of the largest single markets in the world for drama translated into English. Most U.S. theatre history classes include plays from the world canon, and many specialized classes in theatre departments focus on plays from non-Anglophone cultures. In English departments, where other genres in translation (e.g., the novel) may be approached with caution, drama seems to be offered a “pass” because the notion of being dramaturgically literate depends on some knowledge of a sizable canon of non-Anglophone plays. Yet despite its ubiquity, translation is often so normalized as to be invisible to those who depend on it. As Laurence Senelick notes, “For most students, a work exists wholly in its translated form, spontaneously generated.” Translation, as the survey confirmed, is part of the DNA of theatre studies. As such, I argue, it needs to be brought to the foreground of the field. In saying this, I am not unaware of the rich work undertaken by scholars, editors, and practitioners who are enmeshed in the difficult issues involved with translating plays, which include pressing for greater attention to cultural sensitivity and literacy. My focus here is on the academy and the classroom, where, for better or worse, the vast majority of future dramaturgs and audience members will cut their teeth on a critical mass of plays and where no single language or production entity or publisher can claim pride of place.
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Bednarz, James P. "Jonson, Marston, Shakespeare and the Rhetoric of Topicality." Ben Jonson Journal 27, no. 2 (November 2020): 155–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/bjj.2020.0282.

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The revival of commercial “private” theater by the Children of Paul's in 1599 and the Children of the Chapel in 1600 transformed the culture of playgoing in London at the end of the sixteenth century. It was during this period that John Marston at Paul's and Ben Jonson at Blackfriars attracted attention at these theaters by ridiculing each other personally and denigrating each other's work. In doing so they converted these playhouses into forums for staging ideologically opposed interpretations of drama. Rather than aligning themselves with each other against the “public” theater, as Alfred Harbage had assumed in his influential chapter on “The Rival Repertories” in Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions, Jonson and Marston's satire of each other's work used Paul's and Blackfriars to debate the question of the legitimacy of the drama they staged and the status of the writers who composed it. Their debate on what drama should and should not be constitutes one of the most significant critical controversies in early modern English theater. It constitutes part of the first significant criticism of contemporary drama in English. The point of this essay is to account for how, when Jonson began writing for the Children of the Chapel at Blackfriars in 1600, Marston at Paul's became one of his principal targets through personal invective framed as a series of generalized strictures excoriating the obscenity and plagiarism of contemporary private theater.
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JUNG, Youmi. "Women and Theater: Recent Studies in Early Modern English Drama." In/Outside: English Studies in Korea, no. 50 (May 2021): 153–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.46645/inoutsesk.50.5.

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Bean, Heidi R. "Poetry 'n acts: the cultural politics of twentieth-century American poets' theater." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/638.

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"Poetry 'n Acts: The Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century American Poets' Theater," focuses on the disciplinary blind spot that obscures the productive overlap between poetry and dramatic theater and prevents us from seeing the cultural work that this combination can perform. Why did 2100 people turn out in 1968 to see a play in which most of the characters speak only in such apparently nonsensical phrases as "Red hus the beat trim doing going" and "Achtung swachtung"? And why would an Obie award-winning playwright move to New Jersey to write such a play in the first place? What led to the founding in 1978 of the San Francisco Poets Theatre by L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writers, and why have those plays and performers been virtually ignored by critics despite the admitted centrality of performance to L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing's textual politics? Why would the renowned Yale Repertory Theatre produce in the 1990s the poetic, plotless plays of a theater newcomer twice in as many years--even when audiences walked out? What vision for the future of theater could possibly involve episodic drama with footnotes? In each example, part of the story is missing. This dissertation begins to fill in that gap. Attending to often overlooked aspects of theater language, this dissertation examines theatrical performances that use poetic devices to intervene in narratives of cultural oppression, often by questioning the very suitability of narrative as a primary means of social exchange. While Gertrude Stein must be seen as a forerunner to contemporary poets' theater, chapter one argues that the Living Theatre's late 1950s and early 1960s anti-authoritarian theater demonstrates key alliances between poetry and theater at mid-century. The remaining chapters closely examine particular instances of poets' theater by Amiri Baraka (known equally as poet and playwright), Carla Harryman (associated with West Coast poetry), and Suzan-Lori Parks (a critically acclaimed playwright). These productions put poetic theater on the backs of tractors in Harlem streets, in open gallery spaces, and in more conventional black box and proscenium architectures, and each case develops the importance of performance contexts and production histories in determining plays' cultural effects.
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Gibbs, Jenna Marie. "Performing the temple of liberty slavery, rights, and revolution in transatlantic theatricality (1760s-1830s) /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1554940031&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Handall, Monique Elizabeth. "Translating Spanish language plays into English: A focus on the translation and production of Xavier Robles' Rojo amanecer." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2958.

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The purpose of this culminating project is to start translating quality Mexican and Latin American dramatic literature in order to provide to educators and theatrical directors a fundamental collection of plays. The author worked with her San Gorgonio High School students to conduct a dramaturgical study of the setting and political background of Rojo Amanecer by Xavier Robles, a play which outlines the events leading to the 1968 student massacre at Mexico City's Plaza de Tlatelolco. The author then directed the play in her role as San Gorgonio High School's new theater teacher.
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Kwon, Kyounghye. "Local Performances, Global Stages: Postcolonial and Indigenous Drama and Performance in Glocal Circuits." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1259760023.

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Baird, Rachel A. "String Theory." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1273803256.

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Stephen, Scott. "The question that subverts : equitable drama on the early modern English stage, 1591-1621." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2010. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=159216.

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This thesis examines drama and ideas of equity, judgement, and legality in early modern England. Drama of this age is a product of a society of disputation – and the debate surrounding the marginalised female is investigated here. Taking the lead from Ina Habermann, I argue that ‘equitable drama’ offered playgoers spaces of re-interpretive potential. Focusing initially on Arden of Faversham (1592) and A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603) I argue that these domestic tragedies focus on problematic homes during an ‘age of anxiety’. The Arden playwright engages in a re-interpretation of the murder of Thomas Arden – highlighting flaws in the legal resolution to this scandal to show how drama can probe injustice. Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness illustrates an alternative domestic site of dramatic debate. Focusing on Heywood’s interrogation of acts of ‘kindness’ towards females, I suggest that Heywood demonstrates the workings of equitable drama removed from necessary correspondence to a specific real-life case. I then consider how three Jacobean dramas subject female witchcraft to in-depth equitable analysis. Contextualising Macbeth, Sophonisba, and The Witch within contemporary witchcraft debates, I suggest that these plays use witchcraft to interrogate a patriarchal society that reviled witchcraft whilst also demonstrating uncertainties about its reality. I conclude with The Witch of Edmonton (1621) – which is part witchcraft drama and part domestic tragedy. Within the depiction of the real-life ‘witch’ Sawyer, the audience is asked to question the iniquities of communal mob justice and the common law. Tracing new links between these works provides a sense of how early modern drama represented contentious issues surrounding gender, deviancy, and judgement. Ultimately, I argue that equitable drama is rooted in an early modern theatre informed by legal and social debate, which utilised interpretive difference to invigorate performance.
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Taylor, Miles Edward. "Nation, history, and theater : representing the English past on the Tudor and Stuart stage /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9986765.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 255-265). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Pruitt, John. "British drama museums : history, heritage, and nation in collections of dramatic literature, 1647-1814 /." View abstract, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3203336.

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Diamond, Catherine Theresa Cleeves. "The role of cross-cultural adaptation in the "Little Theater" movement in Taiwan /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6650.

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Amato, Danielle Anna. "Collage corporeality : body and technology in contemporary American performance /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3099913.

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B, Worthen William. Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

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Staging consciousness: Theater and the materialization of mind. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.

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DiGaetani, John Louis. A search for a postmodern theater: Interviews with contemporary playwrights. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.

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Callens, Johan. Acte(s) de présence: Teksten over Engelstalig theater in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Brussel: Vubpress, 1996.

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David, Mamet. A life in the theatre. London: Methuen Drama, 1989.

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Salmon, Eric. Isthe theatre still dying? Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1985.

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Is the theatre still dying? Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1985.

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Deutsche Gesellschaft für das Englischsprachige Theater und Drama der Gegenwart. Conference. Beyond the mainstream: Papers given on the occasion of the fourth annual conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1997.

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Theatre and postcolonial desires. London: Routledge, 2003.

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Amkpa, Awam. Theatre and Postcolonial Desires. London: Taylor & Francis Group Plc, 2003.

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Lerud, Theodore K. "The Position of Theater in the Thought of Augustine of Hippo." In Memory, Images, and the English Corpus Christi Drama, 15–23. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230613799_3.

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Bosher, Kathryn, Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell, Patrice Rankine, and John Given. "Aristophanic Comedy in American Musical Theater, 1925–1969." In The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199661305.013.020.

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Racz, Gregary J. "La vida es sueño en forma analógica Teoría, metodología y recepción de la traducción a contrapelo." In Biblioteca di Rassegna iberistica. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-490-5/024.

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Since at least the 1990s, Translation Studies theorists have advocated greater respect for alterity in literary translation. With the advent of Naturalist theatre and, later, the predominance of free-verse poetry in the 20th century, renderings of both poetry and verse drama in the English-speaking world have favoured assimilation with target-culture values. “Organic form”, described by James S. Holmes as the methodology with which a translator renders a source text primarily for its meaning, has been the prevalent strategy for translating works such as Spanish Golden Age dramas for approximately a century now. A return to the methodology of “analogical form”, with which a translator seeks to render the source text using correlatives to its form and function in the source culture, would do much to recognise the Other by avoiding both de-historicisation and de-poeticisation through less domesticated target texts. Examples of these competing methodologies will be examined in a few American translations of Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s La vida es sueño.
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Kilgore, John Mac. "Rites of Dissent." In Mania for Freedom. University of North Carolina Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469629728.003.0003.

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Against the dominant interpretation of the American Revolution as a conservative historical phenomenon, this chapter argues for a reading of the event in which enthusiastic “rites of dissent” play a constitutive role for supporters and critics alike. The author discusses both the Loyalist and Patriot view that colonial resistance in the years leading up to and during the American Revolution was a species of mobbish English enthusiasm conjuring both the English Civil War (the specter of Oliver Cromwell) and the populist revival religion associated with George Whitefield. Through readings of Mercy Otis Warren, Thomas Paine, and Phillis Wheatley, the chapter’s claim is that literatures of enthusiasm, as a discourse of the American Revolutionary event, do indeed draw upon the Puritan revolutionary and Great Awakening revival heritage. Specifically, these literatures invent an insurgent American print culture that transforms aesthetic labor into an expression of dissent—a “theatre of action” that goads the reader to participate in a sacred drama of historical transformation. However, as a result of the post-Revolutionary backlash against political enthusiasm, Warren, Paine, and Wheatley each have had a troubled and uncertain place in American literary history.
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Best, Blair, Madeleine G. Cella, Rati Choudhary, Kayla C. Coleman, Robert Davis, Ella L. Gill, Clayton Grimm, et al. "Reading Macro and Micro Trends in Nineteenth-Century Theater History." In Teaching with Digital Humanities, 82–102. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042232.003.0006.

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This essay co-authored by Robert Davis and his students in a theater class at New York University describes the interdependence of close and distant reading practices in their creation and analysis of a representative corpus of nineteenth-century drama. With irregular scholarly and theatrical attention given to nineteenth-century American theatre, the archive of plays and productions is frustratingly fragmented with few playbooks and only limited accounts of their staging. This chapter demonstrates how students used corpus linguistic and spatial analysis tools like Voyant, Antconc, and Tagxedo to recover a neglected century of American theater. Students found that the use of digital tools to perform text analysis, mapping, and network visualization sparked new scholarly ideas about nineteenth-century theatre.
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Bromley, James M. "City Powd’ring." In Clothing and Queer Style in Early Modern English Drama, 78–111. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198867821.003.0003.

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This chapter examines how Thomas Middleton’s Michaelmas Term positions the cloth trade as pivotal to the construction of sexuality and sexual relations in the city. Circulating with cloth in the play is queer urban sexual knowledge. Antitheatricalists feared that the theater was a site of sexual pedagogy and initiation in the early modern period. Michaelmas Term subtly embraces that role for the city comedy, and the chapter draws on queer theories of materiality to demonstrate that the play’s relentless focus on the materiality of selfhood is pertinent in querying the limits of biological determinism and essentialism that characterize mainstream politics around sexuality today. The play can prompt us to consider how alternate forms of queer ontogenesis derived from the past have affordances for the production of queer culture in the present.
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Meyler, Bernadette. "Introduction Theaters of Pardoning." In Theaters of Pardoning, 1–32. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501739330.003.0001.

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The introduction draws on theories of genre and existing work in early modern law and literature to define the attributes and explain the significance of theaters of pardoning. Demonstrating the surprisingly significant number of seventeenth-century English plays that end with pardons, the introduction identifies these forms of tragicomedy as theaters of pardoning. It also emphasizes how the historical interrelations among the institutions and actors of law, drama, and politics in seventeenth-century England brought conceptions of pardoning from theater to law court to palace and back.
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Smith, Christopher J. "Blackface Transformations I." In Dancing Revolution, 80–101. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042393.003.0007.

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This chapter investigates movement vocabularies associated with early-twentieth-century North American African American dance, particularly as specific performers adapted these exceptionally influential vocabularies in order to employ them for expressive and political purposes beyond the street: in the vaudeville theater, the Hollywood soundstage, and the mixed-race nightclub. This chapter suggests that these performers--Bill Robinson, Josephine Baker, and the Marx Brothers--possessed a sophisticated understanding of the transgressive power of African American street dance and deployed those movement vocabularies with intentional political effect in new, mass-market media. Methodology is drawn especially from film and drama theory, kinesics, and iconography.
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MAVER, IGOR. "The Political and Cultural Transfer of Ideas by Way of American Drama to Slovenian Theater and Literary Criticism Immediately after World War Two." In Ideas Crossing the Atlantic, 295–308. Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrzgw8r.22.

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Taylor, David Francis. "The Tempest; or, The Disenchanted Island." In The Politics of Parody, 71–100. Yale University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300223750.003.0003.

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This chapter focuses on William Shakespeare's The Tempest as political theater, a play that is not a particular favorite with eighteenth-century graphic satirists. In their 1667 adaptation The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island, John Dryden and William Davenant took up Shakespeare's drama as a performative laboratory for their post-interregnum exploration of patriarchal power, casting Prospero as a father-king and Caliban and company as parodic, stridently plebeian figurations of the 1640s parliamentarians. Ultimately, the political appeal of The Tempest resides largely in its dramatic elaboration of “islandness.” As Kathleen Wilson argues, the trope of the island—although long powerful in imaginary literature and material policies—began to serve not only as metaphor but also as explanation for English dominance and superiority in arts and arms.
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