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Subject/Essay Author Location
Abdel-Fatah, Intissar    
Nonverbal Theatrical Elements in
Ntozake Shange's for colored girls…
and Intissar Abdel-Fatah's Makhadet
El-Kohl (The Kohl Pillow)
read first paragraph


Dalia El-Shayal Volume 37, Issue 3,4
Fall/Winter 2003-04
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Abel, Lionel    
The Evolution of Shakespearean
Metadrama: Abel, Burkhardt,
and Calderwood
 Richard Fly Volume 20, Issue 2
Summer 1986
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Abraham    
Incest Disguised: Ottonian Influence at
Gandersheim and Hrotsvit’s Abraham
view abstract
Regula Meyer Evitt Volume 41, Issue 3
Fall 2007
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Absurdist Drama    
The Absurd World of Strindberg's
The Dance of Death 		Orley I. Holtan Volume 1, Issue 3
Fall 1967

Absurdity in English: Joyce and O'Neill Ruby Cohn Volume 3, Issue 3
Fall 1969
Aleksandar Popovic and Pop-Theatre:
Beyond the Absurd 		E. J. Czerwinski Volume 3, Issue 3
Fall 1969
The Alogical and Absurdist Aspects of
Russian Realist Drama 		Simon Karlinsky Volume 3, Issue 3
Fall 1969
Dramatists in Search of Self:
A Backward Glance 		E. J. Czerwinski Volume 3, Issue 3
Fall 1969
Shakespeare and the Genuis of the Absurd Anne Paolucci Volume 7, Issue 3
Fall 1973
Socialist Allegory of the Absurd:
An Examination of Four
East European Plays

Mardi Valgemae Volume 5, Issue 1
Spring 1971


Some Analogies Between the Epic Brecht
and the Absurdist Beckett 		Charles R. Lyons Volume 1, Issue 4
Winter 1967-68
The Theatre of the Absurd
in Spanish America 		George W. Woodyard Volume 3, Issue 3
Fall 1969
Three Times Godot:
Beckett, Brecht, Bulatovic 		Clas Zilliacus Volume 4, Issue 1
Spring 1970
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Acting/Actors    
The Actor and the Statue: Space,
Time, and Court Performance in
Molière's Dom Juan

Michael Spingler Volume 25, Issue 4
Winter 1991-92
The Actor in the Script: Affective Strategies
in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra 		William E. Gruber Volume 19, Issue 1
Spring 1985
Actor, Maschera, and Role: An Approach
to Irony in Performance 		Raymond J. Pentzall Volume 16, Issue 3
Fall 1982
Brecht's Alienated Actor in
Beckett's Theater 		Enoch Brater Volume 9, Issue 3
Fall 1975
"Bodied Forth": Spectator, Stage, and
Actor in the Early Modern Theater
view abstract


 Jennifer A. Low Volume 39, Issue 1
Spring 2005
Children's Troupe's: Dramatic Illusion
and Acting Style		 Michael Shapiro Volume 3, Issue 1 Spring 1969
Directing/Acting Beckett Barbara S. Becker
and Charles R. Lyons 		Volume 19, Issue 4
Winter 1985-86
The Life of the Adult Nō Player
in Japan Today 		Irmgard Johnson Volume 18, Issue 4
Winter 1984-85
As Secret as Maidenhead: The Profession
of the Boy-Actress in Twelfth Night 		Matthew H. Wikander Volume 20, Issue 4
Winter 1986-87
The Style of the Boy Actors Ejner J. Jensen Volume 2, Issue 2
Summer 1968
Theatrical Pragmatics: The Actor-Audience
Relationship from the Mystery Cycles
to the Early Tudor Comedies 		Hans-Jürgen Diller Volume 23, Issue 2
Summer 1989

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Adaptations    
Heywood's Adaptation of Plautus'
Rudens: The Problem of Slavery in
The Captives
Carolyn Prager Volume 9, Issue 2
Summer 1975
Play Strindberg and the
Theater of Adaptation 		Enoch Brater Volume 16, Issue 1
Spring 1982
Stoppard's Adaptations of Shakespeare:
Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth 		C. J. Gianakaris Volume 18, Issue 3
Fall 1984

The Vampire on Stage:
A Study in Adaptations 		Ronald E. McFarland Volume 21, Issue 1
Spring 1987
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Addison, Joseph    
Mocking the Meat It Feeds On:
Representing Sarah Churchill's
Hystericks in Addison's Rosamond

 Luis R. Gámez Volume 29, Issue 2
Summer 1995
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Aeschylus    
Aeschylus and O'Neill:
A Phenomenological View 		John Chioles Volume 14, Issue 2
Summer 1980
Memory in Aeschylus'
Seven Against Thebes

Jerome Mazzaro Volume 18, Issue 2
Summer 1984
Prometheus Bound: Robert Lowell and
Aeschylus 		Jerome Mazzaro Volume 7, Issue 4
Winter 1973-74
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African Drama    
African Theatre and the West Donald Baker Volume 11, Issue 3
Fall 1977
African Traditional Drama and Issues in
Theater and Performance Criticism 		John Conteh-Morgan Volume 28, Issue 1
Spring 1994
“The End of Nigerian History”: Wole
Soyinka and Yorùbá Historiography
view abstract

 Glenn A. Odom  Volume 42, Issue 2
Summer 2008
Euripides in South Africa:
Medea and Demea


 Albert Wertheim Volume 29, Issue 3
Fall 1995
Sophocles in South Africa:
Athol Fugard's The Island 		Errol Durbach Volume 18, Issue 3
Fall 1984
South African Drama in English Mervyn Woodrow Volume 4, Issue 2
Summer 1970
West African Drama in English John Povey Volume 1, Issue 2
Summer 1967

Wole Soyinka: Two Nigerian Comedies John F. Povey Volume 3, Issue 2,
Summer 1969
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After Babel    
Irish Babel: Brian Friel's Translations
and George Steiner's After Babel 		F. C. McGrath Volume 23, Issue 1
Spring 1989
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Aguado, Simón    
Simón Aguado's Entremés de los negros:
Text and Context		 Edward J. Mullen Volume 20, Issue 3
Fall 1986
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Albee, Edward    
Albee's Gothic: The Resonances of Cliché Paul Witherington Volume 4, Issue 3
Fall 1970

Ibsen and Albee's Spurious Children Terry Otten Volume 2, Issue 2
Summer 1968
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Alcestis    
Machines for the Supression of Time:
Statues in Suor Angelica, The
Winter's Tale, and Alcestis 		Robert C. Ketterer Volume 24, Issue 1
Spring 1990
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The Alchemist    
Jonson and the Emblematic Tradition:
Ralegh, Brant, the Poems,
The Alchemist, and Volpone

Robert C. Evans Volume 29, Issue 1
Spiring 1995
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All for Love    
Meanings of All for Love, 1677-1813
read first paragraph


Tanya Caldwell Volume 38, Issue 2,3
Summer/Fall 2004
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Allen, Woody    
Using Comic Devices to Answer the
Ultimate Question: Tom Stoppard's
Jumpers and Woody Allen's God		 Felicia Hardison Londré Volume 14, Issue 4
Winter 1980-81
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Amadeus    
A Playwright Looks at Mozart:
Peter Shaffer's Amadeus		 C. J. Gianakaris Volume 15, Issue 1
Spring 1981
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Amadis    
Friedrich Hartwich's Globus Fortunae
(1617): A Dramatization of the Amadis 		Steven R. Huff Volume 24, Issue 4
Winter 1990-91
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Anouilh, Jean    
Anouilh's Little Antigone: Tragedy,
Theatricalism, and the Romantic Self 		Michael Spingler Volume 8, Issue 3
Fall 1974
Jean Anouilh and Eugene O'Neill:
Repetition and Negativity		 Joseph J. Moleski
and John H. Stroupe		 Volume 20, Issue 4
Winter 1986-87
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Antigone    
Anouilh's Little Antigone: Tragedy,
Theatricalism, and the Romantic Self 		Michael Spingler Volume 8, Issue 3
Fall 1974
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Antonio's Revenge    
Antonio's Revenge: "Never more woe in
lesser plot was found" 		George L. Geckle Volume 6, Issue 4
Winter 1972-73
The Sacrilization of Revenge in
Antonio's Revenge
read first paragraph
 Phoebe S. Spinrad Volume 39, Issue 2
Summer 2005
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Aphrodite katadyomene    
Aphrodite katadyomene: Dryden's
Cleopatra on the Cydnos 		Derek Hughes Volume 14, Issue 1
Spring 1980
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Apollinaire, Guillaume    
A New Play by Apollinaire Willard Bohn Volume 11, Issue 1
Spring 1977
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Apollonius of Tyre    
"Deep clerks she dumbs":
The Learned Heroine in
Apollonius of Tyre and Pericles		 Elizabeth Archibald Volume 22, Issue 4
Winter 1988-89
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Aragon, Louis    
Louis Aragon's L'Armoire à glace un
beau soir: A Play on the Surrealist
"Epoque de sommeil"		 Annabelle Henkin Melzer Volume 11, Issue 1
Spring 1977
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Arcadia    
Playing for Time (and Playing with Time)
in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia
read first paragraph

 Enoch Brater Volume 39, Issue 2
Summer 2005
Tom Stoppard and "Postmodern Science":
Normalizing Radical Epistemologies
in Hapgood and Arcadia
read first paragraph

Daniel Jernigan Volume 37, Issue 1
Spring 2003
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Archibald, William    
The Play of the Surface: Theater and
The Turn of the Screw
view abstract 		Frances Babbage Volume 39, Issue 2
Summer 2005
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Aristocrats    
An American in Ireland: The Representation
of the American in Brian Friel's Plays
view abstract

Maria Germanou Volume 38, Issue 2,3
Summer/Fall 2004
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Aristotle    
"Non-Aristotelian" Theater: Brecht's and
Plato's Theories of Artistic Imitation 		William E. Gruber Volume 21, Issue 3
Fall 1987
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The Arlecchino    
The Arlecchino and Three English Tinkers
read first paragraph
Nina DaVinci Nichols Volume 36, Issue 1,2
Spring/Summer 2002
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L'Armoire à glace un beau soir    
Louis Aragon's L'Armoire à glace un
beau soir: A Play on the Surrealist
"Epoque de sommeil"

 Annabelle Henkin Melzer Volume 11, Issue 1
Spring 1977
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Artaud, Antonin    
Artaud's Revision of Shelley's The Cenci:
The Text and its Double 		Jane Goodall Volume 21, Issue 2
Summer 1987
From Cruelty to Theatre: Antonin Artaud
and the Marquis de Sade 		Franco Tonelli Volume 3, Issue 2
Summer 1969
Witkeiwicz, Artaud and the
Theatre of Cruelty 		Adam Tarn Volume 3, Issue 3
Fall 1969
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Artist Descending a Staircase    
Tom Stoppard's Artist Descending a
Staircase: Outdoing the 'Dada' Duchamp 		Katherine E. Kelly Volume 20, Issue 3
Fall 1986
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Asdrubale    
Two Renaissance Views of Carthage:
Trissino's Sofonisba and Castellini's
Asdrubale		 Beatrice Corrigan Volume 5, Issue 3
Fall 1971
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At the Hawk's Well    
At the Hawk's Well: Yeats's Unresolved
Conflict Between Language and Silence


Edna G. Sharoni Volume 7, Issue 2
Summer 1973
"Haunted by Places": Landscape in
Three Plays by W. B. Yeats

 Natalie Crohn Schmitt Volume 31, Issue 3
Fall 1997
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The Atheist's Tragedy    
Building a Scene: The Text and Its
Representation in The Atheist's Tragedy


William E. Gruber Volume 19, Issue 3
Fall 1985
Theodicy, Tragedy, and the Psalmist:
Tourneur's Atheist's Tragedy		 R. J. Kaufmann Volume 3, Issue 4
Winter 1969-70
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Atlan, Liliane    
Liliane Atlan's The Messiahs
as Cosmic Theatre 		Bettina Knapp Volume 9, Issue 3
Fall 1975
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Auden, W. H.    
The Sound of a Poet Singing Loudly:
A Look at Elegy for Young Lovers 		Marc A. Roth Volume 13, Issue 2
Summer 1979
W. H. Auden's First Dramatization of Jung:
The Charade of the Loving and Terrible
Mothers 		Edward Callan Volume 11, Issue 4
Winter 1977-78
W. H. Auden's Plays for Group Theatre:
From Revelation to Revelation 		Edward Callan Volume 12, Issue 4
Winter 1978-79
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Augier, Émile    
The Ending of A Doll House and
Augier's Maître Guérin 		Thomas F. Van Laan Volume 17, Issue 4
Winter 1983-84
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Austrian Drama    
The Imperial Play as Final Chapter
in the Jesuit Theater in Austria 		Eugene J. Devlin Volume 23, Issue 2
Summer 1989
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Auto Sacramental    
Emblematic Technique in the
Auto Sacramental: Calderón's
No hay más fortuna que Dios 		Frederick E. Danker Volume 6, Issue 1
Spring 1972

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Axël    
Axël: Play and Hearsay Marilyn Gaddis Rose Volume 2, Issue 3
Fall 1968
Yeats's Use of Axël Marilyn Gaddis Rose Volume 4, Issue 4
Winter 1970-71

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