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...Julie A. Carlson Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Julie A. Carlson Forever Young: Master Betty and the Queer Stage of Youth in English Romanticism An empire occupied by a boy of thirteen! The history of the world furnishes not a similar example. The Courier (London), 3...

...Stephen Orgel Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Stephen Orgel Nobody s Perfect: Or Why Did the English Stage Take Boys for Women? My title is the last line of that most Re­ naissance of modern comedies, Some Like It Hot. Joe E. Brown reacts to Jack Lemmon s desperate revelation...

...Karen Bassi Karen Bassi Nostos, Domos, and the Architecture of the Ancient Stage ^Ancient Greek tragedy takes the majority of its plots from epic sources. It is for this and other reasons that by anachronism Plato calls Homer the first teacher and leader of the tragic poets (Republic 595c...

...Thornton S. Graves The Stage Sword and Dagger Thornton S. Graves Trinity College When the modern play-goer who has had more or less ex­ perience in fencing beholds the ordinary stage duel with dagger or rapier or broadsword, he is likely to leave the theater with a profound respect for those old...

...Thornton S. Graves The Comedy of Stage Death Thornton S. Graves University of North Carolina. That stage deaths are funny no observant playgoer will deny. Who has not laughed to see some realist dive into a coal-scuttle on being hit by a high-power bullet, or giggled at the sort of histrionic...

...Elizabeth Nitchie Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 THE STAGE HISTORY OF FRANKENSTEIN ELIZABETH NITCHIE THEATRICAL HISTORY, as well as that of empires, some­ times repeats itself. The last few years have witnessed on the screen a double bill We double dare you to see this double...

...N. I. White A Stage Version of Shelley’s Cenci . By Hicks Arthur C. Clarke R. Milton . Based upon the Bellingham Theatre Guild’s Production of the Tragedy. Caldwell, Idaho : The Caxton Printers, Ltd. , 1945 . Pp. 155 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946...

...Thornton S. Graves Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 The Literal Acceptance of Stage Illusion Thornton S. Graves University of North Carolina It is an interesting comment on playhouse realism that, whereas theatrical people are repeatedly urging the desirability of complete stage...

...Oliver W. Ferguson Pope and the Augustan Stage . By Goldstein Malcolm . ( Stanford Studies in Language and Literature, XVII .) Stanford, California : Stanford University Press , 1958 . Pp. viii , 139 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 622 The South...

...D. F. Rowan Henslowe’s Rose: The Stage & Staging . By Rhodes Ernest L. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1976 . Pp. xxvii , 286 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Book Reviews 127 plicated by the book s failure to explain...

...Gilbert Smith Requiem for a Nun: On Stage and Off . By Izard Barbara Hieronymus Clara . Nashville and London : Aurora Publishers , 1970 . Pp. 331 . $8.95 cloth; $3.95 paper. Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Book Reviews 431 with ascent into heaven. Mink...

...P. F. Baum The Jacobean and Caroline Stage . By Bentley Gerald Eades . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1956 . New York , Oxford University Press , 1956 . Vol. III , pp. xi , 470 ; IV , 471 - 959 ; V , 960 - 1456 . £7 , 7s . $23.55 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press...

...Maxwell Bloomfield Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Muckraking and the American Stage: The Emergence of Realism, 1905-1917 Maxwell Bloomfield Louis Filler, in a bibliographical essay published several years ago, pointed up the need for re-examining the work of the muckrakers...

...Jane Dehart Mathews The Political Stage: American Drama and Theater of the Great Depression. By Goldstein Malcolm . New York : Oxford University Press , 1974 . Pp. x , 482 . $13.95 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Book Reviews 389 was indeed enormous, albeit...

...J. A. Bryant, Jr. A Kingdom for a Stage: The Achievement of Shakespeare’s History Plays . By Ornstein Robert . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1972 . Pp. 231 . $11.00 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Book Reviews 335 A Kingdom for a Stage...

...R. W. Babcock This Great Stage: Image and Structure in “King Lear” . By Heilman R. B. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1948 . Pp. xi , 339 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Book Reviews 301 America. Brazil, at once young and very old...

...Ho-fung Hung This essay outlines the three stages of Chinese capitalist development in the 1980s through the 2000s and discusses how labor politics played out differently in each of the three stages and helped shape the next stage. Whence the erosion of living standards of urban workers amid out...

...George W. Williams Early English Stages, 1300 to 1660 . By Wickham Glynne . Volume II , 1576 to 1660 , Part 2 [1597–1660]. New York : Columbia University Press , 1972 . Pp. xii , 266 ; illustrations, list of books, index. $17.50 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press...

... that postapartheid has been unable to overcome. The antiapartheid generation now in political power in South Africa came of age on Cold War–era formulations of revolutionary time in which the future was parsed in stages toward socialism. In particular, a Marxist-Leninist analysis was formulated for South Africa...

... in the twentieth century, the possibility for a specific fraction of labor to stand in place of the proletariat as a whole and to stage its organization from within the material structure of the current labor processes, implementing a program for the seizure of state power and productive means. Finding...