Contents of Volume XXX

Contents of Volume XXX Number I, March [987 Theater in Recent English Theater RUBY COHN Catastrophe: Beckett's LaboratorylTheatre 14 BERT O. STATES The Space of Play in L'Impromptu d'Ohio 23 AUDREY MCMULLAN The Consumption of Empty Signs: Jean Genet's The Balcony 35 MARIA SHEVTSOVA Fool of Desire: The Spectator to the Plays of Sam Shepard 46 ANN WILSON Sam Shepard: Theatrical Power and American Dreams 58 SHEILA RABILLARD Actors Acting Actors 71 MARTIN ESSLIN S88 Index Strindberg's Gustav Ill: The Player King on the Stage of History 80 MATTHEW WIKANDER The Discipline of the Theatrical Sense: At the Hawk's Well and the Rhetoric of the Stage 90 WILLIAM B. WORTHEN TheatertheaterlTheaterspiele: The Plays of Thomas Bernhard 104 NICHOLAS EISNER BOOK REVIEWS SIMMONS, JAMES, Sean O'Casey and LOWERY, ROBERT G. AND PATRICIA ANGELlN , eds., My Very Dear Sean: George Jean Nathan to Sean O'Casey, Leiters and Articles by Andrew Parkin 115 POSTLEWAIT, THOMAS, ed., William Archer on Ibsen: The Major Essays, 1899- 1919 by Charles Leland 117 KEYSSAR, HELENE, Feminist Theatre: An Introduction 10 Plays a/Contemporary British and American Women and NATALLE, ELIZABETH J.• Feminist Theatre: A Study in Persuasion by Karen Laughlin J 19 MARKER, LISE-LONE AND FREDERlCK J. MARKER, Ingmar Bergman: FOllr Decades in the Theater by Barry Jacobs 122 BIGSBY, C.W.E., A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Cemury American Drama, Volume Two: Williams/Miller/Albee by June Schlueter 125 KANE, LESLIE, The Language ofSilence: On the Unspoken and the Unspeakable in Modern Drama by Steven H. Gale 127 BARLOW, JUDITH E., Final Acts: The Creation ofThree Late O'Neill Plays by Michael Hinden 129 ROWELL, GEORGE AND ANTONY JACKSON, The Repertory Movement: A History of Regional Theatre in Britain by Christopher Innes 131 Number 2, June 1987 "Looking for sense . . ." : The Spectator's Response to Beckett's Come and Go 137 KAREN LAUGHLIN Index Expectation, Confutation, Revelation: Audience Complicity in the Plays of Sam Shepard 147 STEVEN PUTZEL Modem Drama Studies: An Annual Bibliography 161 CHARLES A. CARPENTER BOOK REVIEWS QUIGLEY, AUSTIN, The Modern Stage and Otlier Worlds by Thomas P . Adler 307 Number 3, September 1987 A Problem of Translation: Structural Patterns in the Language of Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea 31 I KA Y UNRUH DES ROCHES Magical Subversions: The Master and Margarita in Performance 327 NICHOLAS RZHEVSKY Red Noses and Saint Joan 340 BERNARD F. DUKORE At the Deathbed: Edward Albee's All Over 352 HENRY I. SCHVEY Norman's 'night, Mother: Psycho-drama of Female Identity 364 JENNY S. SPENCER De-rea1ised Women: Performance and Identity in Top Girls 376 JOSEPH MAROHL Dramatic Strategy in Christina Reid's Tea in a China Cup 389 DlDERIK ROLLR HANSEN 590 Index Six Characters in Search ofan Author and the Battle of the Lexis 396 MARY ANN FRESE WITT Machine and Magus in Pirandello's Tonight We Improvise 405 BETTINA KNAPP The Carnival Motif in Pirandello's Drama 414 JANA O'KEEFE BAZZONI BOOK REVIEWS KENNEDY, ANDREW K., Dramatic Dialogue: The Duologue ofPersonal Encounter by Thomas R. Whitaker 426 WOODFlELD, JAMES, English Theatre in Transition: 1899-1914 by Joel H. Kaplan 428 SCHUMACHER, CLAUDE, Alfredlarry and Guillaume Apollinaire by John H. Reilly 430 BRAMSBACK, BIRGIT, Folklore and W.B. Yeats: The Function oj Folklore Elements; TAYLOR, RICHARD, A Reader's Guide to the Plays afW.B. Yeats; DORN, KAREN, Players and Painted Stage: The Theatre a/W.B. Yeats by Eric Domvi1le 432 DANTANUS, ULF. Brian Friel: The Growth ofan Irish Dramatist by S.F. Gallagher 434 ROLLINS, RONALD GENE, Divided Ireland: Bifocal Vision in Modern Irish Drama by S.F. Gallagher 435 DIAMOND, ELlN, Pinter's Comic Play by Volker Strunk 437 BUSCHENHOFEN, PAUL P., Switzerland's Dramatists in the Shadow ofFrisch and Diirrenrnatt: The Quest for a Theatrical Tradition by Susan L. Cocalis 439 BRYER, JACKSON R., ed., Conversations with Lillian Hellman by Jacob H. Adler 441 LAHR, JOHN, ed., The Orton Diaries by Albert E. Kalson 442 LIOUBIMOV, YOURl, avec la collaboration de MARC OONDEY, Le feu sacre: Souvenirs d' une vie de theatre by John Freedman 444 BIGSBY, C.W. E., David Marner by Matthew C. Roudane 446 Number 4...