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- 020 __ |a 9780786465125 (pbk.)
- 040 __ |a DLC |c DLC |d DLC
- 050 00 |a PS352 |b .D72 2012
- 082 00 |a 812/.5409 |2 23
- 245 00 |a Dramatic revisions of myths, fairy tales and legends : |b essays on recent plays / |c edited by Verna A. Foster.
- 260 __ |a Jefferson, N.C. : |b McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, |c 2012.
- 300 __ |a viii, 250 p. ; |c 23 cm.
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 505 0_ |a Introduction / Verna A. Foster -- Hellenic women revisited: the aesthetics of mythic revision in the plays of Karen Hartman, Sarah Ruhl and Caridad Svich / Miriam Chirico -- Greek tragedy transformed: A.R. Gurney and Charles Mee rewrite Greek drama / Karelisa Hartigan -- "That story is not true": unmaking myth in Ellen Mclaughlin's Helen and Saviana Stanescu and Richard Schechner's Yokastas / Elizabeth W. Scharffenberger -- Tina Howe and Demetrian seriocomedy / Jeffrey B. Loomis -- Children of Yemay' and the American Eshu: West African myth in African-American theatre / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr -- "Punctured by patriarchy": theatricalizing the Christian assault upon native mythology in Tomson Highway's Dry lips oughta move to Kapuskasing / Christy Stanlake -- Damaged myth in Caryl Churchill's The skriker / Amelia Howe Kritzer -- Between desire and authority: the "dybbuk" in modernist and postmodern theatrical adaptations from S. Ansky to Tony Kushner / Sharon Friedman -- Martin McDonagh's Fractured fairy tales: representational horrors in The pillowman / Anthony Ellis -- Food, sex and fairy tales: Wallace Shawn's Grasses of a thousand colors / Sheila Rabillard -- Turning Komachi legends, gender and noh inside out: remaking desire in Timberlake Wertenbaker's early play / Maya E. Roth -- Romancing "La corriveau" and Marguerite De Nontron: Anne Hebert's La cage and L'鑕le de la demoiselle / Gregory J. Reid -- Bloody relations of exchange: Sharon Pollock's revision of legend and feminine myth in blood relations / Laura Snyder -- Beth Henley's abundance: the cinematic myth of the wild west revised / Verna A. Foster.
- 520 __ |a "These new essays explore the ways in which contemporary dramatists have retold or otherwise made use of myths, fairy tales and legends from a variety of cultures. The book contributes to the current discussion of adaptation theory by examining the different ways, and for what purposes, plays revise mythic stories and characters"--Provided by publisher.
- 650 _0 |a American drama |y 20th century |x History and criticism.
- 650 _0 |a Mythology, Classical, in literature.
- 650 _0 |a Myth in literature.
- 650 _0 |a Fairy tales in literature.
- 650 _0 |a Legends |x History and criticism.
- 650 _0 |a Classical drama |x Adaptations |x History and criticism.
- 650 _0 |a Fairy tales |x Adaptations |x History and criticism.
- 650 _0 |a Literature |x Adaptations |x History and criticism.
- 700 1_ |a Foster, Verna A., |d 1946-
- 950 __ |a SCNU |f I712.073/F757