Contents of Volume XLI

Contents of Volume XLI Number 1, Spring 1998 Special Issue TRANSLATIONS ediled by Alan Thomas and David Blostein Introduction I Twice Translated Texts: Beckett into English and Chaikin into Theater 7 RUBY COHN Variations on a Theme: Respecting Dario Fo 19 JOSEPH FARRELL Valle-Incl'n: The Mirroring of Esperpento 30 DAVID JOHNSTON Moscow Stations: From Novel to Play 49 STEPHEN MULRINE Moliere in North America: Problems of Translation and Adaptation 60 DAVID EDNEY Modern Drama, 41 (1998) 668 Contents of Vol. XLI Northern Ireland: Our Troy? Recent Versions of Greek Tragedies by Irish Writers 77 COLIN TEEVAN Silesian into Scots: Gerhart Hauptmann's The Weavers 90 BILL FINDLAY "Greeks Bearing Gifts": Athol Fugard's Orestes Project and the Politics of Experience 105 MERVYN MCMURTRY Ebb and Flow: Ibsen's The Ladyfrom the Sea and the Possibilities of Feminine Discourse 119 JAMES LEIGH Elfriede Jelinek's Nora Project: Or What Happens when Nora Meets the Capitalists 134 CHRISTINE KIEBUZINSKA Sometimes More is Less: Olto e Mezzo to Nine 146 TOBY ZINMAN BOOK REVIEWS 669 CARLSON, HARRY G., Out of Inferno: Strindberg's Reawakening as an Artist by Charles Leland 157 ISSER, EDWARD R., Stages of Annihilation: Theatrical Representation of the Holocaust by Michael Taub 160 FLECHE, ANNE, Mimetic Disillusion: Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and U.S. Dramatic Realism by John S. Bak 162. STEVENSON, RANDALL & WALLACE, GAVIN, ed., The Scottish Theatre Since the Seventies by Maria DiCenzo 167. HARRtS SMITH, SUSAN, American Drama: The Bastard Art by William W. Demastes 169. BOIREAU, NICOLE, ed., Drama on Drama: Dimensions ofTheatricality on the Contemporary British Stage by John Reid 170. LAMB, CHARLES, Howard Barker's Theatre ofSeduction by Alan Thomas 172. Contents of Vol. XLI KRASNER, DAVID, Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in AfricanAmerican Theatre, [ 895-[910 by Stephen Johnson 175. HOLMBERG, ARTHUR, The Theatre ofRobert Wilson by Eileen Fischer 177 Number 2, Summer 1998 Modem Drama Studies: An Annual Bibliography 181 LISA M. POTTlE A Tentative Stemma for Drafts and Revisions of Suddenly Last Summer (1958) 303 BRIAN PARKER NOTE Bunbury Pure and Simple 327 W. CRAVEN MACKIE BOOK REVIEWS HALINA STEPHAN, Transcending the Absurd, by Tamara Trojanowska 331 BIRGIT BEUMERS, Yury Lyubimov at the Taganka Theatre 1<)64- [994, by Manon Van De Water 332 CONTRIBUTORS 335 Number 3, Fall 1998 In the Native Statellndian Ink: Footnoting the Footnotes on Empire 337 LAURIE KAPLAN The (Un)Represented Fragmentation of the Body in Tennessee Williams's "Desire and the Black Masseur" and Suddenly Last Summer 347 ANNETTE J. SADDlK The Mise en Scene of the Non-Euclidian Character: Wellman, Jenkin, and Strindberg 355 JON ERICKSON Contents of Vol. XLI J.M. Synge's The Playboy ofthe Western World and the Culture ofWestern Ireland under Late Colonial Rule 371 JOSEPH DEVLIN "Change the Joke[r] and Slip the Yoke": Boal's "Joker" System in Ntozake Shange'sfor colored girls ... and spell #7386 P. JANE SPLAWN Jean-Claude Grumberg's Holocaust Plays: Presenting the Jewish Experience 399 BRIAN POCKNELL From "Horse Opera" History to Hall of Mirrors: Luis Valdez's Bandido! 411 RICHARD WATI"ENBERG Epiphanic Transformations: Lou Andreas-Salome's Reading of Nora, Rebecca, and Ellida 423 LORRAINE MARKOTIC Fin-de-siecle Reflections and Revisions: Wertenbaker Challenges British Chekhov Tradition in The Break ofDay 442 STUART YOUNG Will Godot Come by Bus or through a Trace? Discussion of a Chinese Absurdist Play 461 HARRY H. KUOSHO Mallogrosso: The Postmodernist Stage in Brazil 474 DAVID S. GEORGE BOOK REVIEWS WILLIAMS, DANA A., Contemporary African American Female Playwrights: An Annotated Bibliography by Kathy.A. Perkins 483. Contents of Vol. XLI SHAUGHNESSY, EDWARD L., Down the Nights and Down the Days: Eugene 0'Neill's Catholic Sensibility by Maurice Breslow 484. PEACOCK, KEITH, Harold Pinter and the New British Theatre by Colette Stoeber 486. WATSON, CHARLES s.,The History ofSouthern Drama by Laurin Poner 488. WADE, LESLIE, Sam Shepard and the American Theatre; BOTTOMS, STEPHEN I., The Theatre ofSam Shepard: States ofCrisis by Steven D. Putzel 490. ROUDANE, MATTHEW C., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams by Brian Parker 492. POWELL, KERRY, Women and Victorian Theatre;TEMPLETON, JOAN, Ibsen's Women by Shelley Scott 496. CHAREST, REMY, Robert Lepage: Connecting Flights: Robert Lepage in Conversation with Ri my Charest by Natalie Rewa 499. STOKES, JOHN, Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles, and Imitations by Ted Bain 501. GONSBERG, MAGGIE, Gender and the Italian Stage: From the Renaissance to the Present Day by Rosalind Kerr 502. BIGSBY, CHRISTOPHER, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller by Peter L. Hays 504. CONTRIBUTORS 507 Number 4, Winter 1998 How Old Is Dr. Rank? 509 TERRY OTTEN Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom: Susan-Lori Parks and the Shared Struggle to Perceive 523 JAMES FRIEZE The Drama of Lynching in Two Blackwomen's Drama, or Relating Grimke's Rachel to Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun 533 ANGELETTA KM GOURDINE "It Seems Queer": The Censorship of Her Wedding Night 546 CHRISTINA HAUCK Contents of Vol. XLI "Plotting the Apple of Knowledge": Tom Stoppard's Arcadia as Iterated Theatrical Algorithm 557 LUCY MELBOURNE "Swapping Stories about Apollo and Cuchulainn": Brian Friel and the De-Gaelicizing of Ireland 573 scon BOLTWOOD Particular Myths, Universal Ethics: Wole Soyinka's The Swamp Dwellers in the New Nigeria 584 PATRICK COLM HOGAN Angels in America as Medieval Mystery 596 BENILDE MONTGOMERY Matter and Spirit in The Seagull 607 JOHN REID Happy Days: Beckett's Rescript of Lady Chatterley's Lover 623 JACQUELINE THOMAS Maps of the World: "Neo-Jacobeanism" and Contemporary British Theatre 635 RICHARD BOON AND AMANDA PRICE BOOK REVIEWS PALMER, RICHARD H. The Contemporary British History Play by Liorah Anne Golomb 655 MANNHEIM, MICHAEL, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Eugene 0'Neill by Marc Maufor! 657 ABRAMSON, GLENDA, Drama and Ideology in Modern Israel, and nahshon, edna, Yiddish Proleterian Theatre: The Art and Politics ofthe Arte! 19241940 by Nahma Sandrow 659 COLLERAN, JEANNE, and SPENCER, JENNY S., eds., Staging Resistance: Essays on Political Theatre by Natalie Harrower 661 SHAFER, YVONNE, August Wilson: AResearch and Production Sourcebook by Joseph McLaren 662 MCLAREN, JOSEPH, Langston Hughes: Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, 1921-1943 by Lisa M. Anderson 664 CONTRIBUTORS 666 ...