New Issue of Comparative Drama

Comparative Drama is pleased to announce the arrival of our winter issue, volume 45.4. The image to the right is included in "Moroccan Acrobats in Britain: Oriental Curiosity and Ethnic Exhibition," by Layachi El Habbouch. Other contributions to this issue include:

Essays

Elizabeth Hutcheon: From Shrew to Subject: Petruchio’s Humanist Education of Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew

Carolyn Tilghman: Staging Suffrage: Women Writing Politics and the Edwardian Theatre

Yeeyon Im: Oscar Wilde's Salomé: Disorienting Orientalism

Layachi El Habbouch: Moroccan Acrobats in Britain: Oriental Curiosity and Ethnic Exhibition

Maurice Hunt: Purging the Jesting Spirit in The Tempest

Reviews

Ann Nichols- Sacred Folly: A New History of the Feast of Fools, by Max Harris

Matthew Smith- The Improbability of Othello: Rhetorical Anthropology and Shakespearean Selfhood, by Joel Altman

Freddie Rokem- The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy, by Martin Puchner

Jay Halio- Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama: Unchaste Signification, by Maria Franziska Fahey