Text & Presentation 2009

<p> <I>Text & Presentation</I> is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference.</p><p> This edition includes papers from the 33rd annual conference held in Los Angeles California. Topics covered include Bernard Shaw's use of gardens and libraries in <I>Widowers' Houses</I> Northern Ireland emergency law in Brian Friel's <I>The Freedom of the City</I> cannibalism and surrogation in <I>Hamletmachine</I> Sergei Eisenstein's and Charlie Chaplin's use of the montage of attraction and adaptations of classic Greek tragedy in Mexico and Taiwan among other topics.</p>