| 1 |
Introduction (Staging the Impossible)
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Patrick D. Murphy
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Essay
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| 15 |
When Formula Seizes Form: Oscar Wilde's Comedies
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Susan Taylor Jacobs
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Essay
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| 30 |
A Task Most Difficult: Staging Yeats's Mystical Dramas at the Abbey
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Frederick S. Lapisardi
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Essay
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| 44 |
The Perilous Edge: Strindberg, Madness, and Other Worlds
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Peter Malekin
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Essay
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| 56 |
Wassily Kandinsky's Stage Composition Yellow Sound: The Fantastic and the Symbolic Mode of Communication
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Kent W. Hooper
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Essay
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| 87 |
Ionesco and L'Insolite
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Elizabeth C. Hesson
&
Ian M. Hesson
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Essay
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| 108 |
Ambiguity and the Supernatural in Cocteau's La machine infernale
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Ralph Yarrow
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Essay
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| 116 |
Beckett and the Horrific
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Lance Olsen
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Essay
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| 127 |
Multiplicities of Illusion in Tom Stoppard's Plays
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Peter N. Chetta
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Essay
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| 137 |
Leivick's the Golem and the Golem Legend
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Carl Schaffer
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Essay
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| 150 |
Dream on Monkey Mountain: Fantasy As Self-Perception
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Robert J. Willis
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Essay
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| 156 |
Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia: A Performance Gesture
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Jessica Prinz
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Essay
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| 169 |
The Shock of the Actual: Disrupting the Theatrical Illusion
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Theodore Shank
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Essay
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| 182 |
Playing at the End of the World: Postmodern Theater
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Veronica Hollinger
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Essay
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| 197 |
"Infinity in a Cigar Box": The Problem of Science Fiction on the Stage
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Joseph Krupnik
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Essay
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