In this Issue

Table of Contents

Dramatic Justice?: The Aftermath of the Holocaust in Ronald Harwood's Taking Sides and The Handyman

Victoria Stewart
pp. 1-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0030
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Postmodernism and Violence in Mamet's Oleanna

Thomas E. Porter
pp. 13-31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0057
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"It's the Do-Gooders Burn My Ass": Modern Canadian Drama and the Crisis of Liberalism

Jerry Wasserman
pp. 32-47
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0064
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Shame, Guilt, Empathy, and the Search for Identity in Arthur Miller's Death of A Salesman

Fred Ribkoff
pp. 48-55
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0068
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The Pictures of Simon Gray: Dramatizing Degeneration

Anne Nothof
pp. 56-65
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0034
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The Politics of Catastrophe: Confrontation or Confirmation in Howard Barker's Theatre

Liz Tomlin
pp. 66-77
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0052
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Wisdom! Light! Beauty! A Thematic Analysis of Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean

Douglas Abel
pp. 78-86
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0037
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Performative Acts of Gendered Emotions and Bodies in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard

Peta Tait
pp. 87-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0040
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From Jug Band to Dixieland: The Musical Development behind August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Susan C.W. Abbotson
pp. 100-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0026
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Into That Rinsing Glare?: Field Day's Irish Tragedies

Shaun Richards
pp. 109-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0009
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Leaving the Labyrinth: Hella S. Haasse's A Thread in the Dark (De Draad in het donker)

Frances Babbage
pp. 120-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0049
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Reviews

Theatre of Chaos: Beyond Absurdism, into Orderly Disorder by William W. Demastes (review)

Jure Gantar
pp. 130-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0001
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Tennessee Williams: A Guide to Research and Performance ed. by Philip C. Kolin, and: Understanding Tennessee Williams by Alice Griffin, and: The Politics of Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams' Later Plays by Annette J. Saddik (review)

Brian Parker
pp. 131-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0045
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Twentieth Century Irish Drama: A Mirror up to Nation by Christopher Murray (review)

Christopher Innes
pp. 134-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0023
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The Theater of Fernand Crommelynck: Eight Plays by Alain Piette and Bert Cardullo, and: The Crommelynck Mystery: The Life and Work of a Belgian Playwright by Alain Piette and Bert Cardullo (review)

David Willinger
pp. 136-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0004
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Essays on Caryl Churchill: Contemporary Representations ed. by Sheila Rabillard (review)

Liorah Anne Golomb
pp. 138-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0013
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Mammies No More: The Changing Image of Black Women on Stage and Screen by Lisa M. Anderson (review)

Shelley Scott
pp. 140-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0019
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Contributors

pp. 143-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2000.0061
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