In this engaging cross-disciplinary study, Timothy Murray examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender, sexuality, and power. Establishing a retrospective dialogue between past and present, stage and video, <EM>Drama Trauma</EM> links the impact of trauma on recent political projects in performance and video with the specters of difference haunting Shakespeare's plays.<BR> The book provides close readings of cultural formations as diverse as Shakespearean drama, the Statue of Liberty, contemporary plays by women, African-American performance, and feminist interventions in video, performance and installation. The texts discussed include:<BR> * installations by Mary Kelly and Dawn Dedeaux,<BR> * plays by Ntozake Shange, Rochelle Owens, Adrienne Kennedy, Marsha Norman and Amiri Baraka<BR> * performances by Robbie McCauley, Jordan, Orlan, and Carmelita Tropicana<BR> * stage, film and video productions of <EM>King Lear, Othello, Romeo and Juliet</EM> and <EM>All's Well that Ends Well.</EM><BR>