...Christopher Braider Abstract Students of seventeenth-century French drama offer oddly truncated readings of Jean Rotrou’s Véritable Saint Genest . Fascinated by the play within a play in which the eponymous saint is converted to a Christian martyr’s faith by performing a Christian martyr’s role...

... to the antitheatricalist fear of universal efferninization.’ In answer to his title’s question Orgel suggests that the English fear of the power of women’s sexuality contributed to the acceptance of boys playing fernalc roles upon the stage. Although Orgel briefly discusses the homosexual pos- sibilities of cross...

...Cecilia Cutts Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 THE CROXTON PLAY: AN ANTI-LOLLARD PIECE By CECILIACUTTS The previous studies which have been made of the Croxton Play .of the Sacrament‘ have concerned...

... study of the “Stern des Bundes,” and for which we are really grateful. AUGUSTCLOSS University of Bristol The Private Life of the Master Race: A Documentary Play. By BERTOLTBRECHT. English version and an essay on Brecht by ERICRUSSELL...

...S. D. Stirk Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 GERHART HAUPTMANN’S PLAY “DIE FINSTERNISSE” By S. D. STIRK Gerhart Hauptmann died on June 6, 1946, at the age of eighty-three. All preparations had been made for him to leave his home at Agneten...

... only fleeting mention of Dickens in a book about the many faces of playfulness. Is Dickens somehow less representative than Char- lotte Yonge, because less arcane? I also found myself wondering what other imaginative writers meant by “play, games, and sport.” When the chastened and disciplined...

...Sister Corona Sharp Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 STRINDBERG AND DURRENMATT THE DYNAMICS OF PLAY By SISTERCORONA SHARP The influence of Strindberg on modern drama is well known. His concern...

... Tudor Drama, Together m*th a Text of the Play Based on the Black-Letter Original. By KENNETHWALTER CAM- ERON. Raleigh, North Carolina : The Thistle Press, 1941. Pp. 132. $2.75. Gentleness and Nobility 11522-1523). By JOHN HEYWOOD(Origi- nally edited...

...G. F. Sensabaugh Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 ANOTHER PLAY BY JOHN FORD By G. F. SENSABAUGH Professor Alfred Harbage, in a recent disclosure of apparent Restoration pilfering,l assigns to John Ford Sir Robert Howard’s The Great...

...Glending Olson Kendrick Laura. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1988. xi + 215 pp. $28.00. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 REVIEWS Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in lhe “Canterbury Tales.” By LAURAKEN- DKICK...

... Play. By A. E. ZUCKER.Translated from the Low German of the Fifteenth Century with Introduction and Notes. Records of Civilization Sources and Studies, No. XXXII. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941. Pp. x + 134, front. $2.00. The translation into English...

... II.” By JAMES L. CALDERWOOD.Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1971. 192 pp. $7.50. The rage to discover that plays must not only mean but be, or rather that their meanings must finally (if they are to be approved) die into being, con- tinues unabated. The strategies by which...

...O. B. Hardison, JR. A. Kolve V.. Standford: Standford University Press, 1966. viii + 337 pp. $8.50. Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 94 REVIEWS The Play Called Corpus Christi. By V. A. KOLVE. Stanford: Stanford...

...Alvin Kernan Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 JOHN MARSTON’S PLAY HISTRIOMASTIX By ALVINKERNAN The play Histriomastix was published anonymously in 1610, and it was not until 1878 that Richard Simpson notedl that certain pass...

...Margaret Connolly [email protected] Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375–1500 . By Hannah Bower . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022 . xii + 259 pp. Copyright © 2024 by University of Washington 2024 Hannah Bower’s study of later medieval...

... mentioned by Gosson in Playes Confuted (1582) as “plaid at Paules” may also reasonably be added to Westcott’s list. 6 Novel1 8, Tenth Day. On the probable sources of this and other roman- tic plays see L. M. Ellison, Early Romantic Drama at the English Courf (Chicago, 1917...

... B. Benson 505 Scandinavian Plays of the Twentieth Century. With Introductions by ALRIK GUSTAFSON.First Series (Swedish) ; 176 pp. Second Series (Danish and Norwegian) ; 298 pp. Princeton : Princeton University Press for the American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1944...

...Brean Hammond The Publication of Plays in London, 1660–1800: Playwrights, Publishers, and the Market . By Milhous Judith and Hume Robert D. . London : British Library . xxvi + 483 pp. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 Reference Erne Lukas . 2003...

.... RICHARDH. PERKINSON Fordh am University A Check List of English Plays, 1641-1700. Compiled by GERTRUDEL. WOODWARDand JAMES G. MCMANAWAY.Chicago : The Newberry Library, 1945. Pp. [vii] + 155. Students of Commonwealth and Restoration drama will find this bibliography of editions...