Triezenberg Article Accepted

7th Surgical Hospital, 1966

Christina Triezenberg's article ""Bridging the Distances: Women Writers Exploring the Nightmare of Vietnam" will be published in an upcoming issue of Women's Studies.  As the future Dr. Triezenberg describes it, the article "explores the many ways in which the antiwar poetry written by women writers about America's involvement in Vietnam expands our understanding of the devastating impact of this conflict on both those who served in it and on the Vietnamese landscape itself, as well as challenges the ongoing exclusion of these often emotionally wrenching works from undergraduate teaching anthologies, which have the power to provide younger Americans, and readers in general, with a much clearer and more nuanced understanding of the war that moves beyond the perspectives of the American combat soldier."  This piece was originally written for Daneen Wardrop's "Nature of Poetry" class and was submitted with her encouragement.  Its quality also helped make Triezenberg the recipient of the Galligan Award last spring.

Gigante to Deliver Keynote Lecture--Wed., Jan. 29@4:00PM

Kazoo Books Author Day

Grace Tiffany and other local authors will be signing their new books this Saturday, December 14th, at Kazoo Books' Parkview location (2413 Parkview). For slothful Christmas reading, come get a copy of Paint, Tiffany's novel about Emilia Lanier, Will Shakespeare, and a host of crazy cross-dressed face-painting Elizabethans. Joan Donaldson, Tom Small, Hedy Hebra, Grace Tiffany, and local artisans will be there between 12 and 1:30.

Bay Psalm Book Auctioned for $14.2 Million

Sotheby's recently auctioned one of only eleven remaining copies of the Bay Psalm Book, commonly accepted as the first book printed in British America, for a record-shattering $14.2 million.  Since the majority of the first psalters are held by libraries, it is rare for this book to be available for private collections.  Aside from its rather inelegant translation of the psalms ("The Lord to me a shepherd is, / Want therefore shall not I / He in the folds of tender grass, / Doth cause me down to lie:"), the book is also noteworthy for the statement of Puritan aesthetics by John Cotton in the preface to the first edition ("God's altar needs not our polishings").  Read the whole story at http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-bay-psalm-book-auction-20131127,0,2723766.story#axzz2mFIFetzJ.

New Issue of Comparative Drama

Comparative Drama's fall 2013 issue, volume 47.3, has arrived from press. This issue includes the following contributions:

Essays

Performing the Aging Self in "Da" and Dancing at Lughnasa
Valerie Lipscomb

Role and Freedom in Calderón’s The Great Theater of the World
Gerhard Poppenberg

The Idea of “America” in the Expatriate Drama of Koffi Kwahulé
Les Essif

Conflict, Carnage, and Cats: Toward a Comic Cú Chulainn in Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore
A. J. Knox

Reviews

“The Farce of the Fart” and Other Ribaldries: Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English
ed. and trans. Jody Enders
reviewed by Noah D. Guynn

Shakespeare Among the Courtesans: Prostitution, Literature, and Drama, 1500-1650
by Duncan Salked
reviewed by Theresa D. Kemp

Drama and the Transfer of Power in Renaissance England
by Martin Wiggins
reviewed by Adam Zucker

Faith in Shakespeare
by Richard C. McCoy
reviewed by Jennifer C. Vaught

Illustrating Shakespeare
by Peter Whitfield
reviewed by Alan R. Young

Shakespeare in Company
by Bart Van Es
reviewed by Tim Fitzpatrick

Ludics in Surrealist Theatre and Beyond
by Vassiliki Rapti
reviewed by Pierre Taminiaux