RICHARD A . F . P ENROS E LECTURE; Dr. Mendelsohn gives an engaging lecture on Greek and Roman theatre and their relationship to our current version humiliation entertainment: reality TV
Natalie Davis discusses the theatrical traditions of the Arab Muslim world. She tells the story of Leo Africanus and Jacob Mantino and this encounter between two traditions of theatre and poetry in the early 16th century.; Further reading: Davis, N. Trickster Travels A Sixteenth-century Muslim Between Worlds. (Faber and Faber 2008)
; ; Charlotte Greenspan discusses Richard Rodgers. What was his influence on American musical theater? How did his collaboration with Hammerstein and Hart work?
