Drama Program: Graduate Program

Completed Dissertations 1997-2008

1998

James Harbeck: Containment is the Enemy: An Ideography of Richard Schechner

Randy Kapelke: Artistic Victories: How the Legitimate Theatre Overcame New York City's Efforts to Impose Censorship

1999

Denise Cole: The Theatre of Hospitality: Performing English Masques

Gary Genard: Performances of Record: Media and Verse Delivery in Three Hamlets on Audio, 1903-1937

Daphne Lei: Performing the Borders: Gender and Intercultural Conflicts in Pre-modern Chinese Drama

Heather Nathans: A Democracy of Glee: The Post-Revolutionary Theatre of Boston and Philadelphia

Antoni N. Z. Sadlak: Harlequin Comes to England: The Early Evidence of the Commedia dell'arte in England and the Formulation of English Harlequinades

Michael Zampelli: Incarnating the Word: Giovan Battista Andreini, Religious Antitheatricalism, and the Redemption of a Profession

2000

Luke Jorgenson: Boal and Youth Theater in the United States

Amanda Nelson: Performing for the Empire: Victorian Women on Stage for the South of Africa

Barbara Schofield: Daddy's Girls: The Company of Women's King Lear. Observations of Gender, Shakespeare and the Creative Process

2001

Najib Bounahai: Moors in Elizabethan/Jacobean Entertainments: Race, Performance and Politics

Mark Norman Cosdon: From Daredevil Acrobatics to Le Voyage en Suisse: The Hanlon Brothers, 1833-1884

Susan Carol Day: Aristophanes' Plays in the United States: A Production History in the Context of Their Socio-political Revelations

Linda Anne Dohaney: Empire and Poesy Together Rise: Theatre, Government, and Society in Dublin, 1660-1730

Edward Kahn: They Saw Othello's Visage with their Minds: Interpreting Othello in the Antebellum North

Sasa Perugini: The Aesthetics of Fellini's Art Seen Through Its Ties with Popular Entertainment

Marialyn E. Riley: The Casino Theatre at Newport, Rhode Island, The Summer Colonists' Playhouse: Reality, Grandeur, Memories 1881-1971

Kathleen Marie Sills: The Inside Track to the Future: Chicago Theatre 1950-1971

Nancy Elizabeth Taylor: Women Directors and Shakespeare on the 1990's American Stage

Katherine L. Weinstein: Subversive Women: Female Performing Artists in Zurich Dada

2002

Marc A. Gordon: Stanislavsky in America: Russian Émigré Teachers of Acting

Melissa J. Lindberg: A Woman's Case: The Working World of Susanna Centlivre

Jennifer Stiles: Nationalism, Patriotism, and the Stage Irish on the Early Nineteenth-Century Dublin Stage

2003

Sherry Ann Darling: A Critical Introduction to The Stone Wall: An Autobiography

Stanley R. Richardson: American Radio Drama 1941-1945: War, Propaganda and Dramatic Method

Wanda M. Strukus: Unidentified Performing Objects: Perception, Phenomenology and the Object as Actor

2004

Danielle Herget: The Vaudeville Wars: William Morris, E. F. Albee, The White Rats and the Business of Entertainment, 1898-1923

Theresa Lang: Interred in Concrete: The Censorship of Boston's Old Howard Theatre

Olivia Turnbull: Bringing Down the House: The Inevitable Problems of England's Regional Theatres, 1974-1997

2005

Brian Cronin: With Seven Sinnys Sadde Beset: The Iconography of the Deadly Sins and the Medieval Stage

Valerie Smith: From Text to Performance: The Lydia Thompson Burlesque Company on the Nineteenth-Century British and American Stage

2006

Paula T. Alekson: The Mythos of Madame Vestris: Theatrical Memoir and the Consequence of Performance

Kyna Hamill: Looking for a Fight: Violence on the Early Commedia dell'arte Stage, 1568-1630

Laurence Michael Tocci: The Proscenium Cage: Comparative Case Studies in U. S. Prison Theatre Programs

2007

Natka Dawn Bean Bianchini: "Exactly As You Envisioned": Alan Schneider's Direction of Samuel Beckett

Scott W. Malia: Italian Renaissance: Giorgio Strehler and His Productions of Carlo Goldoni's Servitore di due padroni

Dassia Nadezhda Posner: Fantasy, Irony and the Grotesque: E. T. A. Hoffmann and Russian Modernist Theatre, 1910-1922

Susan W. Thompson: Tout Ensemble: The Actor/Creator and the Influence of the Pedagogy of Jacques Lecoq on American Ensembles

2008

Emma Dassori: Carlo Gozzi's Zobeide: An Annotated Translation

Adrienne Macki: Staging the 'Folk': A History of Harlem's Little Theatre Movement, 1920-1940

Jacqueline Romeo: Comic Coolie: Charles T. Parsloe and Nineteenth-century American Frontier Melodrama

Christopher Scully: Constructed Places: Shakespeare's American Playhouses

Karolina Wrobel: The Festival in Krakow: Examining the Revival of Jewish Culture in Poland

2009

Virginia L. Anderson: "Beyond Angels: Broadway Theatre and the AIDS Epidemic, 1981-2006"

Sean Edgecomb: "Still Ridiculous: The Legacy Of Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatre Movement, 1987-2007"

Kevin Landis: "The Republic of Dreams: Stacy Klein and the Double Edge Theatre"

Callie A. Oppedisano: "Worthy of Imitation: Contemporary Mormon Drama on the Latter Day Stage"

Eunice Ferreira: "Theatre in Cape Verde: Resisting, Reclaiming, and Recreating National and Cultural Identity in Postcolonial Lusophone Africa"

2010

Rachel Mansfield: "Drama and the Peaceable Kingdom: Adaptation and Cultural Identity in a Just Society"

Hugh Long: "At A Sword’s Length: Theatrical Dueling in Early Modern Spanish Drama"

Raymond Saraceni: "A Philadelphia Story: Refinement and Resistance on the Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Stage"

Jenna Kubly: "Vaudeville and the American Experience of the First World War As Seen By Variety"

Wen-ling Lin: "Performing Nation, Imagining Taiwaneseness in Twenty-First Century Theatre In Taiwan"

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Completed Masters Theses 1998-2007

1998

Marshall Parker: The Hermeneutic Knot: An Analysis of the 10^th and 11^th December 1896 Performances of Alfred Jarry's UBU ROI

1999

Kevin Wery: Penitential Flagellation in the Medieval West: Body, Blood, and Crisis

2000

Anthony Cornish: The Well Graced Actor

Sherry Darling: Crossing the Stone Wall: Identity as Performance

Jane Martin: African Womanhoods in the Works of Four West African Women Playwrights

2002

Emma Dassori: "A Very New Woman: The Role of Suffrage Drama from the Middle to the End of the Nineteenth Century in America

Dassia Posner: Little Wooden Actors: Puppet Theatre in Russia during the Silver Age, 1905-1920

Christopher Scully: George Pierce Baker and American Scene Design

2004

Natka Bianchini: Directing Endgame: Samuel Beckett's Response to Three American Productions

2006

Kristen E. Baker: "An Equal Blend of Help and Delight!": Case Studies and Analyses of Three Contemporary Educational Theater Programs"

Rachel E. Mansfield: Trend and Aftermath: The Iconography and Rhetoric of Neo-Burlesque

2007

Helen Deborah Lewis: Renting a Queer Space: The Commodification of Queerness in Jonathan Larson's Rent

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