In this Issue

Table of Contents

Stoppard's Arcadia: Research, Time, Loss

Prapassaree Kramer, Jeffrey Kramer
pp. 1-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0055
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Coming Out in The Room: Joe Orton's Epigrammatic Re/Vision of Harold Pinter's Menace

Francesca Coppa
pp. 11-22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0044
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Nostalgic Rapture: Interpreting Moral Commitments in David Hare's Drama

John J. Su
pp. 23-37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0035
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What is a Birth Astride a Grave?: Ohio Impromptu as Zen Koan

John L. Kundert-Gibbs
pp. 38-56
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0026
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Nowhere Man and the Twentieth-Century Cowboy: Images of Identity and American History in Sam Shepard's True West

Megan Williams
pp. 57-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0018
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Looking into Black Skulls: Amiri Baraka's Dutchman and the Psychology of Race

George Piggford
pp. 74-85
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0010
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Beyond Poststructuralism: Theory of Character, the Personae of Modern Drama, and the Antinomies of Critical Theory

Brian Richardson
pp. 86-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0000
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Some Defining Characteristics of Australian Aboriginal Drama

Dennis Carroll
pp. 100-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0049
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Scenes of the Crime: Returning to the Past

Christina Stachurski
pp. 111-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0038
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The Daughter's Double Bind: The Single-parent Family as Cultural Analogue in Two Turn-of-the-Century Dramas

Lorelei Lingard
pp. 123-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0029
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Anarchy and Resistance in Tristan Tzara's The Gas Heart

Robert A. Varisco
pp. 139-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0021
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Three Tutorial Plays: The Lesson, The Prince of Naples and Oleanna

Craig Stewart Walker
pp. 149-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0013
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Book Reviews

Beckett Writing Beckett: The Author in the Autograph by H. Porter Abbott (review)

Harry Vandervlist
pp. 163-164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0004
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Shaw's People: Victoria to Churchill by Stanley Weintraub (review)

J.L. Wisenthal
pp. 165-166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0053
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The Death of Character: Perspective on Theater after Modernism by Elinor Fuchs (review)

Philip Auslander
pp. 166-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0042
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The Fate of the Object: From Modern Object to Postmodern Sign in Performance, Art and Poetry by Jon Erickson (review)

Susan Bennett
pp. 169-171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0033
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Performance and Cultural Politics ed. by Elin Diamond, and: The Intercultural Performance Reader ed. by Patrice Davis (review)

Richard Paul Knowles
pp. 171-174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0024
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Theatre and Change in South Africa ed. by Geoffrey V. Davis and Anne Fuchs (review)

Anthony O'Brien
pp. 174-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0016
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Performing Brecht: Forty Years of British Performances by Margaret Eddershaw (review)

David Krasner
pp. 175-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0007
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The Feminist Possibilities of Dramatic Realism by Patricia R. Schroeder (review)

J. Ellen Gainor
pp. 178-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0057
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Contributors

pp. 181-182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.1997.0046
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