Susan Carlson

Selected Publications and Research Activity since 1991

Book

• Women in Comedy: Rewriting the British Theatrical Tradition. Ann Arbor: Michigan UP, 1991.

Articles

• "The Suffrage Shrew: The Shakespeare Festival, 'A Man's Play,' and New Women." Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century. Ed. Jonathan Bate, Jill Levenson, and Dieter Mehl. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998. 85-102.
• "Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon: Staging Seventeenth-Century Farce for Twentieth-Century Tastes." Essays in Theatre 14 (May 1996): 117-130.
• "Leaking Bodies and Fractured Texts: Representing the Female Body at the Omaha Magic Theatre." New Theatre Quarterly 12 (February 1996): 21-29.
• "Cannibalizing and Carnivalizing: Reviving Aphra Behn's The Rover." Theatre Journal 47 (1995): 517-539.
• "Women, Theatre, and Territory: The Omaha Magic Theatre and the Boundaries of Theatrical Performance." In Women and Theatre. Ed. Julia Pascal. Contemporary Theatre Review 2:3 (1995): 63-76.
• "Collaboration, Identity, and Cultural Difference: Karim Alrawi's Theatre of Engagement." Theatre Journal 45 (May 1993): 155-173.
• "Identity, Nationality, and Performance: The Reception of Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale and Our Country's Good." New Theatre Quarterly 35 (Summer 1993): 267-289.

Essays

• "Comic Militancy: The Politics of Suffrage Drama." Women, Theatre and Performance: New Historiographies. Ed. Maggie B. Gale and Viv Gardner. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1999.,
• "The Suffragettes and Shakespeare: Marriage, Comedy, and Politics in the Edwardian Theatre." Women in Theatre. Hofstra UP, forthcoming 1999.
• "Conflicted Politics and Circumspect Comedy: Women's Comic Playwrighting in the 1890s." Nineteenth Century British Women Playwrights. Ed. Tracy Davis and Ellie Donkin. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, forthcoming 1999.
• "Cross-Border Children: Language and Identity in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Plays." The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights. Ed. Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, forthcoming 1999.

In Progress

• "Politicizing Harley Granville Barker: Suffragists, Shakespeare, and the Modern Director."
• "Women Playwrights." With Kerry Powell. In Cambridge Companion to VIctorian and Edwardian Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2000.
• "Interview with Timberlake Wertenbaker." To be submitted to Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism.

• "From Play to Novel to Film: An Interview with Jane Smiley on Revising King Lear." Submitted to Shakespeare Quarterly.
• Shakespeare and the Suffragettes, a book on British Suffrage Theatre in the context of Turn-of-the-Century stagings of Shakespeare.