Theatre and National Identity : Re-Imagining Conceptions of Nation (Paperback)

1. Introduction Nadine Holdsworth  Part I: Revisiting ‘National’ Plays and Cultural Icons  2. "It’s just changed color?": Clowning with Parodies of Religion, Race and Nation in Woza Albert! and Woza Andries? Anton Krueger  3. Over and Beyond Under Milk Wood: Dylan Thomas, National Icons and Re-Imagining the Cultural Landscape of Wales Nadine Holdsworth  4. Within These Walls: The Beaux Stratagem, the City of Derry and ‘the only Loyalist theatre producer in Ireland’ Wallace McDowell  Part II: Directing the National Repertoire  5. La Casa De Bernarda Alba [The House of Bernard Alba]: Federica Garcia Lorca, the Spanish Civil War and the Issue of Historical Memory Maria M. Delgado  6. An Inspector Calls and Calls Again: Nation, Community and the Individual in J. B. Priestley’s Play Maggie B. Gale  7. Stealing the Scene: Simon McBurney’s All My Sons in New York Marvin Carlson  Part III: The Nation’s ‘Imagined Community’  8. Born in YU: Performing, Negotiating, and Transforming an Abject Identity Silvija Jestrovic  9. What Happened to Our Nation of Culture? Staging the Theatre of the Other Germany Peter M. Boenisch  Part IV: Nations in Flux  10. "Once Again With Feeling": Emily of Emerald Hill as Floating Signifier KK Seet  11. The Takarazuka Revue’s Wind in the Dawn: (De-)nationalization of Japanese Women Nobuko Anan  12. ‘Members of a Chorus of a Certain Tragedy’: Euripides’ Orestes at the National Theatre of Greece Marilena Zaroulia