Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses. 2021, 35

Special Issue: Theatre and Performance Studies in English

Guest Editors: Isabel Guerrero & Verónica Rodríguez


Theatre and Performance Studies in English: An Introduction — Guerrero, Isabel; Rodríguez, Verónica


Section 1. The Performance of Alternative Victorian Femaleness

Performing the Female Alternative in Victorian Popular Drama: The “Girl of the Period” and the “Fast Girl” — Puchal Terol, Victoria

“Come, Dark-eyed Sleep”: Michael Field and the Performance of the Lyric as a Radical Fantasy — Cantillo Lucuara, Mayron Estefan


Section 2. Performing Politics and Aging

Performing Political Persuasion in the United States in the Early Years of the Republic — Kačer, Tomáš

Disrupting Temporalities, Multiplying the Self: An Age-Studies Approach to Two Contemporary Plays — Casado-Gual, Núria; Shevchenko-Hotsuliak, Inesa


Section 3. Theatres of Violence

Performative Encounters: Memory Violence in Sleep Deprivation Chamber — Barba Guerrero, Paula

Adaptation against Myth: Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott and the Violence of Austerity — Gualberto, Rebeca


Section 4. Activating Community: From Satire to Location

An Exploration into the Satiric Significance of Abuse in Selected Nigerian Drama — Alabi, Oluwafemi Sunday

Navigating New Approaches for Grassroot Community Theatre in a (Post-)Covid World — Reading, Kerrie