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 Aristophanesrsquo;s and Aeschylusrsquo;s plays and discussions of topics including Joe Ortonrsquo;s plays as social protest against the power of psychiatry and the asylum; George Eliotrsquo;s controversial description of the burlesque spirit as ldquo;fodder for degraded appetites;rdquo; and psychological depictions of young women entering into sexual experience in Liz Lochheadrsquo;s Dracula; among others.
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