...Allan Gilbert The Royal Play of Macbeth . By Paul Henry N. . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1950 . Pp. xiv , 438 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 185 it needs to be qualified in terms of the differing social conditions of the two...

...Joseph A. Porter Player-King and Adversary: Two Faces of Play in Shakespeare . By Allman Eileen Jorge . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1980 . Pp. i , 347 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 493 Player-King and Adversary...

... DeLillo. Photo: Joyce Ravid. Tseng 2001.11.19 12:53 Don DeLillo The Mystery at the Middle of Ordinary Life: A One-Minute Play In a letter to Frank Lentricchia...

... political, artistic or otherwise. An essential feature of this aesthetic zeitgeist was its mixture of ludic and political elements; as Mo nik put it, Unseriousness and even playfulness were combined in a graceful way with political radicalism (83). In fact, the notion of play was itself emerging...

... playfulness; although he tries to integrate modern play theory into his argu­ ment; and although he reads with sensitivity and writes clearly Shakespeare s Comedies of Play is flawed in conception. Relying on Freud (via Erikson) and Piaget, Huston defines play as an attempt to mediate between the self...

...Arthur B. Ferguson The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare . By Ribner Irving . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1957 . Pp. ix , 354 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 146 The South Atlantic Quarterly of Western journalism (the details...

...Nichole T. Rustin 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Nichole T. Rustin ‘‘Mary Lou Williams Plays Like a Man Gender, Genius, and Difference in Black Music Discourse Music is work. The work ranges from the daily practice sessions...

...David L. Andrews Duke University Press 2006 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. David L. Andrews Introduction: Playing with the Pleasure Principle I want to start with the fact...

... life-times from the side of life destined for disposable superfluity. I look at acts of “fate playing” in the contexts of migrant Filipina workers and the urban lumpenproletariat to view those dimensions of social reproductive work on the part of disposable peoples that persist beyond and despite...

...Paul Smith Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Paul Smith Playing for England 5A^ithout a doubt, the biggest cultural event of the summer of 1990 in Britain was the one for which about half the population stayed at home every night over a period of about three weeks. That event...

...Catherine Mills This essay examines the notion of “playing with law” that Giorgio Agamben proposes in State of Exception and, more broadly, his understanding of “play” as developed in works such as Infancy and History . In this latter text, Agamben provides his most extended discussion of play...

...Elbridge Colby Copyright © 1914 by Duke University Press 1914 Some Irish Plays and Social Sketches Elbridge Colby Proudfit Fellow in Letters, Columbia University. We have heard a great deal during recent years, about the Irish National Theatre. Mr. William Butler Yeats, Dr. Doug­ las Hyde...

...Juliet Koss Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Juliet Koss Playing Politics with Estranged and Empathetic Audiences: Bertolt Brecht and Georg Fuchs Bertolt Brecht articulated his theory of Verfrem- dung (a dramatic technique of estrangement or alienation ) in 1936, in response...

...R. Florence Brinkley The Plays of Nathan Field . Edited by Peery William . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1950 . Pp. x , 346 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 149 pression forces of nature was banned as atheistic from a textbook...

...Jackson R. Bryer Final Acts: The Creation of Three Late O’Neill Plays . By Barlow Judith E. . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1985 . Pp. viii , 215 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews 189 Johnson in the Life has meant something radically...

...Ernest William Talbert Shakespeare’s History Plays . By Tillyard E. M. W. . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1946 . Pp. x , 336 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Book Reviews 523 an early tutoring assignment, through freshman year at the University...

...Marie A. Updike White The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats . New York : The Macmillan Co. , 1953 . Pp. 446 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 Book Reviews 153 strength of his distaste leaves a poem or poet well damned. He offers love and hate in strong and lucid...

...Roland Mushat Frye The Poacher from Stratford: A Partial Account of the Controversy over the Authorship of Shakespeare’s Plays . By Wadsworth Frank W. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1958 . Pp. 174 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book...

...J. A. Bryant, Jr. On the Literary Genetics of Shakespeare’s Plays, 1592-1594 . By Baldwin T. W. . Urbana : The University of Illinois Press , 1959 . Pp. xii , 562 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Book Reviews 589 from our isolation, we shall for a long...

...Ashbel G. Brice 604 The South Atlantic Quarterly Book and I, both available elsewhere. The whole is primarily a book for collectors of Whitmaniana and for specialists devoted to the study of the poet s methods of composition. Clarence Gohdes. Four Plays by Holberg. Translated by Henry Alexander...