Selected essays from the 33rd Comparative Drama Conference held in Los Angeles, California, 26-28 March 2009.
Where's a saint when you need one? The influence of Edmund Campion's Ambrosia on Shakespeare's Macbeth / Mary Frances Williams
The (im)perfect Wagnerite : Bernard Shaw and Richard Wagner / Christopher Innes
Gardens and libraries in Shaw's Widowers' houses : "life here is a perfect idyll" / Tony J. Stafford
Relative facts : emergency law, Northern Ireland, and Brian Friel's The freedom of the city / Peter Leman
The totalitarian non-tragedy of American business in the French plays of Michel Vinaver / Les Essif
Attacking the canon through the corpse : cannibalism and surrogation in Hamletmachine / Sonya Freeman Loftis
A liberating cruelty : two adaptations of classical tragedy for the Mexican stage / Francisco Barrenechea
Troy, Troy ... Taiwan : transformation from epic to elegy / Wen-ling Lin
Peeling empire : Yū Miri's performance of "Resident Korean" in Japan / John D. Swain
Ping Chong's postcolonial historicism and theatricalism : Pojagi in The East-West quartet / Yuko Kurahashi
Great souls, big wheels, and other words : experiments with truth and representation in verbatim theatre / Donald McManus
"Sounds indistinguishable from sights" : staging subjectivity in Katie Mitchell's Waves / Sharon Friedman
Down with plot : Eisenstein, the Tramp, and the subversiveness of "montage of attraction" / Sascha Just
Rita Felski's Rethinking tragedy : a review essay / Helen Moritz.
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