Drama and Religion: Volume 5

Themes in Drama brings together articles and review about the dramatic and theatrical activity of a wide range of cultures and periods.

James Redmond (Edited by)

9780521088695, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 October 2008

336 pages
22.6 x 15.3 x 1.9 cm, 0.5 kg

Themes in Drama is a journal which brings together articles and review about the dramatic and theatrical activity of a wide range of cultures and periods. The articles offer original contributions to their own specialised fields, but are presented in such a way that their significance may be readily appreciated by non-specialists. The review section is especially important since reviewers have more than usual scope to give critical accounts of drama in performance and to discuss the most significant contributions to dramatic scholarship and criticism.

Themes in Drama volumes and conferences
List of contributors
List of illustrations
Editor's preface
1. Chekhov's use of church ritual in Tatyana Repina John Racin
2. 'Merde pour Dieu!' Arrabal's variation on Pascal's bet Richard N. Coe
3. Providence by indirection in seventeenth-century tragicomedy Perry Gethner
4. The Methodist Church and the theatre in Canada, 1884–1925 L. W. Conolly
5. Books for the unlearned Meg Twycross
6. Masques and shadows Roma Gill
7. D. H. Lawrence's David: drama as a vehicle for religious prophecy Mitzi M. Brunsdale
8. 'The mystery of things': the varieties of religious experience in modern American drama Thomas P. Adler
9. Drama and ritual Rainer Friedrich
10. Religion and Japanese drama Charles Dunn
Review Section: Productions: 11. God and embarrassment Paula Neuss
12. Ritual and reification: the Passion plays at Oberammergau and Eureka Springs, Arkansas Dana Sue McDermott
13. Rangda: archetype in action in Balinese dance-drama Stephen Snow
Books: 14. Was Congreve a Christian? Harold Love
Index.

Subject Areas: Theatre studies [AN]