Text & Presentation 2011

Text & Presentation Is An Annual Anthology Of Essays Devoted To All Aspects Of Theatre And Performance Scholarship. This 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 Aristophaness And Aeschyluss Plays And Discussions Of Topics Including Joe Ortons Plays As Social Protest Against The Power Of Psychiatry And The Asylum, George Eliots Controversial Description Of The Burlesque Spirit As Fodder For Degraded Appetites, And Psychological Depictions Of Young Women Entering Into Sexual Experience In Liz Lochheads Dracula, Among Others.