Contents of Volume XL

Contents of Volume XL Number I, Summer 1997 Stoppard's Arcadia: Research, Time, Loss I PRAPASSAREE AND JEFFREY KRAMER Coming Out in The Room: Joe Orton's ReNision of Harold Pinter's Menace I I FRANCESCA COPPA Nostalgic Rapture: Interpreting Moral Commitments in Da~id Hare's Drama 23 JOHN J. SU What is a Birth Astride a Grave? Ohio Impromptu As Zen Koan 38 JOHN L. KUNDERT-GIBBS Nowhere Man and the Twentieth-Century Cowboy: Images of Identity and American History in Sam Shepard's True West 57 MEGAN WILLIAMS Looking into Black Skulls: Amiri Baraka's Dutchman and the Psychology of Race 74 GEORGE PIGGFORD Modem Drama, 40 (1997) 565 566 Index Beyond Poststructuralism: Theory of Character, the Personae of Modem Drama and the Antinomies of Critical Theory 86 BRIAN RICHARDSON Some Defining Characteristics of Australian Aboriginal Drama 100 DENNtS CARROLL Scenes of the Crime: Returning to the Past Michelanne Forster's Daughters ofHeaven 1I1 CHRISTINA STARCHURSKI The Daughter's Double Bind: The Single Parent Family as Cultural Analogue in Two Turn-of-the-Century Dramas 123 LORELEI LINGARD Anarchy and Resistance in Tristan Tzara's The Gas Heart 139 ROBERT A. VARISCO Three Tutorial Plays: The Lesson, The Prince ofNaples and Oleanna 149 CRAIG WALKER BOOK REVIEWS ABBOTT, H. PORTER, Beckett Writing Beckett: The Author in the Autograph by Harry Vandervlist 163 WEINTRAUB, STANLEY, Shaw's People: Victoria to Churchill by J.L. Wisenthal 165 FUCHS, ELINOR, The Death afCharacter: Perspectives Oil Theatre after Modernism by Philip Auslander 166 ERICKSON, ION, The Fate ofthe Object: From Modern Object to Postmodern Sign by Susan Bennett 169 DIAMOND, ELlN, Performance and Cultural Politics and PAVIS, PATRICE, The Intercultural Pe/formance Reader by Richard Paul Knowles I71 DAVIS, GEOFFREY V., & ANNE FUCHS, ed. Theatre and Change in South Africa by Anthony O'Brien 174 Index EDDERSHAW, MARGARET, Pelfarming Brecht: Forty Years ofBritish Pelformances by David Krasner 175 SCHROEDER, PATRICIA R., The Feminist Possibilities ofDramatic Realism by J. Ellen Gainor 178 Number 2, Summer 1997 Modem Drama Studies: An annual Bibliography LISA M. POTTlE A Provisional Stemma for Drafts, Alternatives, and Revisions of Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo (1951) BRIAN PARKER BOOK REVIEWS WILLIAM W. DEMASTES. ed., Realisi1J and the AmericanDramatic Tradition by Gerais Berkowitz 295 ANNIE BRISSET (ttans. ROSALIND GILL & ROGER FANNON), A Sociocritique of Translation: Theatre and Alterity in Quebec, [968-[988 by Leoard E. Doucette 296 SALLY PETERS, Bernard Shaw: The Ascent ofthe Superman by Lisbie Rae 298 PHILIP C. KOLIN & COLBY H. KULLMAN, eds., Speaking on Stage: Interviews with Contemporary American Playwrights by Brian Parker 299 Number 3, Fall 1997 Strindberg's Unknown Comedy 305 DANIEL DAVY Revisiting the Prozorovs 325 GERALDINE COUSIN Misrepresentation and Miscegenation: Reading the Racialized Discourse of A Streetcar Named Desire 337 GEORGE W. CRANDELL Visions of the Sightless in Friel's Molly Sweeney 568 Index and Synge's The Well ofthe Saints 347 CAROLE-ANNE UPTON The Failed Words of Brian Friel 359 VID KRAUSE A Prison of Object Relations: Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse ofa Negro 374 CLAUDIA BARNETT God and the Owls: The Sacred and the Profane inAdrienne Kennedy's The Owl Answers 385 CARLAJ.MCDONOUGH Brechtian Sexuality in the Plays of Howard Barker 403 DESMOND GALLANT The Sense of an Ending: The Representation of Homosexuality in Brendan Behan's The Hostage 414 ANN MARIE ADAMS BOOK REVIEWS ALTER, NORA M., Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage by Daniel-Raymond Nadon 422 BILLINGTON, MICHAEL, The Life and Work ofHarold Pinter by John F. Deeney 423 BOOTH, DAN IEL and JOEL KAPLAN, eds., The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage by Richard Foulkes 425 DONESKY, FINLAY, David Hare: Moral and Historical Perspectives by Anne F. Nothof 427 MATTSON, MICHELLE M., Franz Xaver Kroelz: The Construction ofa Political Aesthetic by Susan L. Cocalis 429 Number 4, Winter 1997 Laying Blame: Gender and Subtext in David Mamet's Oieallna 433 THOMAS H. GOGGANS Index Feminism, Metatheatricality, and Mise-en-scene in Maria Irene Fornes's Fefu and Her Friends 442 PENNY FARFAN "It's only a paper moon ...": The Paper Ontologies in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire 454 PHILIP C. KOLIN Female Victims and the Male Protagonist in Vaclav Havel...