Scholars@Duke
R. Darren Gobert

R. Darren Gobert

Professor of Theater Studies
Theater Studies
rdg37@duke.edu
109D Page, Box 90680, Durham, NC 27708-0680
Box 90680, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Wednesday and Friday, noon to 1:00 p.m. and by appointment  

Selected Publications

Love and Information by Caryl Churchill, or sexuality and gender in non-binary times

Chapter · December 12, 2022 In this chapter, R. Darren Gobert elaborates the written and performative conventions of gender and casting historically, as we move from page to stage. Gobert examines Churchill's Love and Information as it attempts to sidestep gender by not predeterminin ... Full text Cite

The Seven Streams of the River Ota: National Theatre, London, UK

Journal Article PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art · September 1, 2021 Full text Cite

Adaptations

Chapter · June 17, 2021 Featured Publication This collection covers biographical and historical topics, as well as the broad array of intellectual, aesthetic, and political concerns with which Stoppard has engaged. ... Cite

Adaptations

Chapter · June 17, 2021 Featured Publication This collection covers biographical and historical topics, as well as the broad array of intellectual, aesthetic, and political concerns with which Stoppard has engaged. ... Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · June 2020 Link to item Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · March 2020 Link to item Cite

Review of Mount Oympus, directed by Jan Fabre.

Journal Article Theatre Journal · September 21, 2019 Full text Open Access Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · September 2019 Link to item Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · May 2019 Link to item Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · March 2019 Link to item Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · December 2018 Link to item Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · June 2018 Link to item Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · March 2018 Link to item Cite

Drama Drama: The State of Drama Studies in the Profession

Journal Article The Harold Pinter Review · 2018 Open Access Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · December 2017 Link to item Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · September 2017 Link to item Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · June 2017 Link to item Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · March 2017 Link to item Cite

Editor's Note

Journal Article Modern Drama · 2017 Open Access Cite

Editor's Note

Journal Article Modern Drama · 2017 Open Access Cite

Editor's Note

Journal Article Modern Drama · 2017 Open Access Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · December 2016 Link to item Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · September 2016 Link to item Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · March 2016 Link to item Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · December 2015 Link to item Cite

The Field of Modern Drama, or Arcadia

Journal Article Modern Drama · September 2015 Full text Open Access Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · September 2015 Link to item Cite

Modern Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · September 2015 Link to item Cite

The Theatre of Caryl Churchill

Book · September 25, 2014 Through its five interlocking parts, The Theatre of Caryl Churchill tells a story about the playwright, her work, and its place in contemporary drama. ... Link to item Cite

The Mind-Body Stage Passion and Interaction in the Cartesian Theater

Book · August 21, 2013 The Mind-Body Stage provides a dazzlingly original picture of one of the most consequential and confusing periods in the histories of modern theater and philosophy. ... Link to item Cite

Behaviorism, Catharsis, and the History of Emotion

Journal Article Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism · March 2012 Full text Open Access Cite

CARTESIAN SUBJECTIVITY ON THE NEOCLASSICAL STAGE; OR, MOLIÈRE ACTS CORNEILLE FOR LOUIS XIV

Journal Article Theatre Survey · May 2008 In 1658, having been invited to perform at court for the first time in his career, Molière paired his farce Le Docteur amoureux with Nicomède, a 1651 play by France's reigning dramatist, Pierre ... Full text Open Access Cite

Finding a Physical Language: Directing for the Nineties Generation

Journal Article New Theatre Quarterly · May 2008 In the course of his career, James Macdonald has directed a vast array of plays and operas in London, New York, Vienna, and Berlin, but he is perhaps best known for the premiere productions of Sarah Kane's Blasted, Cleansed Full text Open Access Cite

Recent British Drama

Journal Article Modern Drama · September 2007 Link to item Cite