Text & Presentation, 2011

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Text & Presentation, 2011 is written by Kiki Gounaridou and published by McFarland. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0786469951 (ISBN 10) and 9780786469956 (ISBN 13).

Text & Presentation is an annual anthology of essays devoted to all aspects of theatre and performance scholarship. This new volume represents a selection of the best research presented at the 35th international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference in Los Angeles. The essays include innovative detective work on Aristophanes's and Aeschylus's plays and discussions of topics including Joe Orton's plays as social protest against the power of psychiatry and the asylum, George Eliot's controversial description of the burlesque spirit as "fodder for degraded appetites," and psychological depictions of young women entering into sexual experience in Liz Lochhead's Dracula, among others.