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... 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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Barrett John Mandel Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O’Neill . By Bogard Travis . New York : Oxford University Press , 1972 . Pp. 491 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 410 The South Atlantic Quarterly tance of the views they present. Because...

...Thomas F. Marshall The Federal Theatre, 1935-1939. Plays, Relief, and Politics . By Mathews Jane De Hart . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1967 . Pp. xii , 342 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 558 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Federal...

...O. W. Ferguson Davis Herbert ’ edition of The Complete Plays of William Congreve ( Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1967 , $12.50 ) Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 200 The South Atlantic Quarterly well be renamed Chamberlain s guarantee to the House...

...John M. Clum Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Ridgely Torrence s Negro Plays: A Noble Beginning John M. Clum Among the significant moments in the history of the American theater, one remains relatively unsung. Its success at the box office was not great, its place in the memory...

...Thomas L. Berger Discovering Shakespeare: A New Guide to the Plays . By Brown John Russell . New York : Columbia University Press , 1981 . Pp. v , 168 . $22.50 . Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 110 The South Atlantic Quarterly Dennis Taylor s study of Hardy s...

...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...

...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...

...Roy W. Battenhouse Hippolyta’s View: Some Christian Aspects of Shakespeare’s Plays . By Bryant J. A. Jr. Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1961 . Pp. ix , 240 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 282 The South Atlantic Quarterly period of six...

... 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...