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2012033848
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9780786465125 (softcover : alk. paper)
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PS352
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.D72 2012
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PS352
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.D72X 2012 (LC)
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Dramatic revisions of myths, fairy tales and legends :
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essays on recent plays /
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edited by Verna A. Foster.
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Jefferson, N.C. :
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McFarland,
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c2012.
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viii, 250 p. ;
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23 cm.
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"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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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'ële 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.
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American drama
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20th century
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History and criticism.
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Mythology, Classical, in literature.
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Myth in literature.
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Fairy tales in literature.
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Legends
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History and criticism.
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Classical drama
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Adaptations
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History and criticism.
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Fairy tales
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Adaptations
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History and criticism.
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Literature
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Adaptations
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History and criticism.
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Foster, Verna A.,
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1946-
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PS352
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Sterling Memorial Library
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SML, Stacks, LC Classification >> PS352 .D72X 2012|DELIM|11282189
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