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This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies.

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* More than Realism: Horton Foote's Impressionism by Tim Wright * David Story's Aesthetic of Invisible Events by William Hutchings * What's Wrong With This Picture? David Rabe's Comic-Strip Plays by Toby Silverman * Hedda's Children: Simon Gray's Anti-Heroes by Katherine Burkman * Romanticism and Reaction: Hampton's Transformation of Liasons Dangereuses by Stephanie Barbe Hammer * The Artistic Trajectory of Peter Schaffer by C.J. Gianakaris * The Artist in the Garden: Theatre Space and Place in Landford Wilson by Thomas P. Adler * Great Expectations: Languages and the Problem of Presence in Sam Shepard's Writing by Ann Wilson * Vision and Reality: Their Very Own > and Golden City and Center 42 by Clive Barker * Funny Money in New York and London: Neil Simon and Alan Aykbourn by Ruby Cohn * Master Class and the Paradox of the Diva by Cary Mazer * From Zurich to Brazil with Tom Stoppard by Felicia Hardison Londre * The Romans in Britain: Aspirations and Anxieties of a Radical Playwright by Ann Wilson * Female Laughter and Comic Possibilities: Uncommon Women and Others by Miriam Chirico * Phallus in Wonderland: Machismo and Business in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross by Hersh Zeifman * The Dumb Waiter, The Collection, The Lover, and The Homecoming: A Revisionist Approach by George Wellworth * Who Wrote John Arden's Plays? by Tish Dace * Negotiating History, Negotiating Myth: Friel Among his Contemporaries by Claire Gleitman * Monsters and Heroines: Caryl Churchill's Women by Lisa Merrill * Playing with Place: Some Filmic Techniques in the Plays of David Hare by John Russell Brown

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