Genus envy
Subtitle: nationalities, identities and the performing body of work
By: Thomas F. Connolly.
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781604976823
Subjects: Theater and society; Drama -- Social aspects; Drama -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Nationalism and literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Culture in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : rampant flaccidity or notional culture; title: Radicalizing the discourse of American drama : Eugene O'Neill, the greatest un-American playwright; title: From first nighter to essayist : the [dis]/establishment of/and drama critic John Mason Brown; title: Green, "quare" nation :  Micheál Mac Liammóir's need to apply Irishness; title: Cosmopolitan nationalist : Alexander Moissi from the Hofburgtheater to "people's artist of the Socialist People's Republic of Albania"; title: Medals and mediation : the performer's persona, the Petrarchan ideal and late-19th century Viennese culture; title: The thing's the play : Noel Coward haughty, (not so) naughty boy.