Text & Presentation 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.

This anthology includes papers from the 32nd annual conference held in Los Angeles, California. Topics covered include masculinity in the plays of Tennessee Williams and Frederico Garcia Lorca; Moliere's revolutionary dramaturgy; motherhood in Medea; Electronovision and Richard Burton's Hamlet; and Jose Carrasquillo's all-nude production of Macbeth, among many others.

This is an anthology representing the best of papers presented at the 31st Comparative Drama Conference (Los Angeles, California). A three-day event, the conference drew 161 scholars from all over the world.This volume features 16 research papers, a roundtable discussion, review essay, and six book reviews. The papers included here present research about the Chicano Theatre, America's Vietnam War and 9/11 in the French Theatre, Actresses and Modern Hamlet, the Asian Theatre and 12 others. The roundtable discussion is on the future of dramatic literature in the academy. Reviews of selected books are also included.

This is an anthology representing the best of the 138 papers presented at the 30th Comparative Drama Conference (Los Angeles, California). A three-day event, the conference drew 152 scholars from all over the world. The papers included here present research about Beckett, Brecht, Goethe, Tom Stoppard, dance performance, staged violence, the Com?d?e Fran?aise, and Greek and Japanese drama. Reviews of selected books are also included.

2004 writeup: This is an anthology of the best papers presented at the 28th Comparative Drama Conference at the Ohio State University April 29-May 1, 2004. This international three-day event had 59 sessions and 200 program participants who presented and discussed 168 research papers. The panelists were affiliated with 100 universities and 16 colleges. For 24 years, Text and Presentation published the finest papers presented at the annual conferences as periodicals. This 25th edition is the first to be offered in book form, comprised of 16 research papers, one review essay and five book reviews. Topics include Euripides, German and Russian theatre, dramatic antecedents of the striptease, surrogate love in The Glass Menagerie, surrealist drama, Greek comedy and the American concept musical, and theatre and politics.

This is an anthology of the best papers that were presented at the 28th Comparative Drama Conference at Ohio State University April 29-May 1, 2004. This international three day event had 59 sessions and 200 program participants who presented and discussed 168 research papers. The conference was co-sponsored by 12 academic units in the College of Humanities and the College of the Arts. The panelists were affiliated with 100 universities and 16 colleges. For 25 years Text & Presentation has been publishing the finest papers presented at the annual conferences to help readers be aware of the happenings in international drama. French novelist Emile Zola, noted for his championship of the Naturalist novel, has been one of the most adapted authors in world literature. There have been approximately 80 film adaptations of his late 19th century novels and short stories, many of which occurred during the silent era of international film production (1895-1927). While the aesthetic elements of Zola's fiction continue to appeal to international cinema, the author's thematic naturalism and his ""scientific methodology"" have provided an ideological framework that incorporates art, science and history into the many cinematic adaptations of his work.