Fall 2005
Volume XX
Number 1
Table of Contents
ARTICLES
Forms of Restraint: High Comic Renunciation in Three Plays by A. R. Gurney
Robert F. Gross 7
Hamlet in His World: Shakespeare Anticipates/Assaults Cartesian Dualism
William W. Demastes 27
SPECIAL SECTION
“Writing, Teaching, Performing America”
Papers from the New Literacies Conference
Co-sponsored by The American Theatre and Drama
Society and The University of Kansas
Introduction: “Writing, Teaching, Performing an ‘Anxious Nation’”
Iris Smith Fischer 43
‘Making Queer New Things’: Queer Identities in the Life and Dramaturgy
of Susan Glaspell
Cheryl Black 49
Beyond Identity Politics: National and Transnational Dialogues in Anna Deavere
Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 and Chay Yew’s A Beautiful Country
Nancy Cho 65
Panel: Politics and Religion in America”
Abstract
Janelle Reinelt 83
Soul Death and the Death of Soul in Critical Theory: A Polemic
Anthony Kubiak 85
Testimonial Sexuality; or, Queer Structures of Religious Feeling:
Notes Toward an Investigation
Ann Pellegrini 93
The Ambivalence of Catholic Compassion
Janelle Reinelt 103
Teaching the Theatre of Argument in Fahrenheit 9/11
Christy Rieger 113