In this Issue

Table of Contents

A Comment on this Special Issue

Jill Levenson
p. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0040
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Peter Handke: The Staging of Language

Rainer Nägele
pp. 327-338
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0043
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Politics and Poetry: Peter Handke's They Are Dying Out

June Schlueter
pp. 339-345
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0046
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Peter Handke and the End of the "Modern"

Michael Hays
pp. 346-366
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0049
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A Drama of Disease and Derision: The Plays of Thomas Bernhard

Martin Esslin
pp. 367-384
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0052
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"The Greatest Uncertainty": The Perils of Performance in Thomas Bernhard's Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige

Robert F. Gross Jr.
pp. 385-392
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0035
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Moving into the Eighties: The German Theatre a Decade after the Breakthrough

Peter Stenberg
pp. 393-403
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0038
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"Reject it, in order to possess it": On Heiner Müller and Bertolt Brecht

Theo Girshausen, Peter Harris, Pia Kleber
pp. 404-421
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0042
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The Drama of the German Democratic Republic since Brecht: An Outline

Gottfried Fischborn, Peter Harris, Pia Kleber
pp. 422-434
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0045
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The Emancipation of Dance: Pina Bausch and the Wuppertal Dance Theatre

Norbert Servos, Peter Harris, Pia Kleber
pp. 435-447
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0048
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The Youth Plays of GRIPS

Gerhard Fischer
pp. 448-471
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0051
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The Theatre of Franz Xaver Kroetz

Ursula Schregel, Peter Harris, Pia Kleber
pp. 472-483
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0054
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The Plays of Bernhard, Bauer, and Handke: A Checklist of Major Critical Studies

Charles A. Carpenter
pp. 484-491
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0037
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DDR-Dramatik: Major Critical Studies, 1966-78, of East German Playwrights

Charles A. Carpenter
pp. 492-500
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0041
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Book Reviews

Modern Drama and German Classicism: Renaissance from Lessing to Brecht by Benjamin Bennett (review)

Gordon Tracy
pp. 501-502
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0044
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The Theatre of Erwin Piscator by John Willett (review)

Christopher Innes
pp. 502-504
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0047
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The Dark Journey: John Whiting as Dramatist by Eric Salmon, and: Peter Shaffer by Dennis A. Klein (review)

Malcolm Page
pp. 504-507
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0050
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Dreams of Passion: The Theater of Luigi Pirandello by Roger W. Oliver (review)

Anne Paolucci
pp. 507-508
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0053
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Contributors

pp. 509-510
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0036
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Contents of Volume XXIII

pp. 511-514
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1980.0039
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