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Subject/Essay Author Location
Sachs, Hans    
The Birth of Reason from the Spirit
of Carnival: Hans Sachs and
Das Narren-Schneyden
Ralf Erik Remhardt Volume 23, Issue 1,
Spring 1989
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Saint Joan    
Shaw's Saint Joan and the Modern
History Play 		Stephen Watt Volume 19, Issue 1,
Spring 1985
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Salomé    
The Daughters of Herodias in Hérodiade,
Salomé, and A Full Moon in March 		Marilyn Gaddis Rose Volume 1, Issue 3,
Fall 1967
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Sanskrit Drama    
Sanskrit Drama: Theory and
Performance 		V. Raghavan Volume 1, Issue 1,
Spring 1967
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Sardou, Victorien    
Measure for Measure, Montmorency,
and Sardou's La Tosca		 Mark Eccles Volume 14, Issue 1,
Spring 1980
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Sartre, Jean-Paul    
Doctor Faustus from Adam to Sartre Erich Kahler Volume 1, Issue 2,
Summer 1967

Sartre on Brecht: The Dialectics
of Revolutionary Theatre 		Farris Anderson Volume 3, Issue 4,
Winter 1969-70
Towards a Theater of Immobility:
Henry IV, The Condemned of
Altona, and The Balcony

Mary Ann Frese Witt Volume 24, Issue 2,
Summer 1990
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Sauspiel    
Martin Walser's Sauspiel and the
Contemporary German History Play 		Gerald A. Fetz Volume 12, Issue 3,
Fall 1978
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Savages    
The Director Intervenes: Christopher
Hampton's Savages		 Peter Holland Volume 13, Issue 2,
Summer 1979
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Scale of Perfection    
"Blake and wyght, fowll and fayer":
Stage Picture in Wisdom Who Is Christ 		David Bevington Volume 19, Issue 2,
Summer 1985
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Schiller, Friedrich    
Staging Act Five of Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell
view abstract
 Timothy Richard Wutrich Volume 40, Issue 1,
Spring 2006
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Schumann, Robert    
Schumann's Genoveva as German
Romantic Drama 		Linda Siegel Volume 6, Issue 4,
Winter 1972-73
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Scorpion Orchid    
Maturation and Political Upheaval in
Lloyd Fernando's Scorpion Orchid and
Robert Yeo's The Singapore Trilogy
read first paragraph

 Catherine Diamond  Volume 36, Issue 1,2,
Spring/Summer 2002
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The Screens    
Genet's The Blacks and The Screens:
Dialectic of Refusal and Revolutionary
Consciousness 		W. F. Sohlich Volume 10, Issue 3,
Fall 1976
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The Sea Gull    
Irony and Theatricality in Chekhov's
The Sea Gull 		Carol Strongin Volume 15, Issue 4,
Winter 1981-82
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The Second Sheperds' Play    
Musical Structure in the
Second Sheperds' Play 		Regula Meyer Evitt Volume 22, Issue 4,
Winter 1988-89
The Shepherd's Gifts in
The Second Shepherds' Play
and Bosch's "Adoration of the Magi" 		John P. Cutts Volume 4, Issue 2,
Summer 1970
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Secunda Pastorum    
Symbol and Structure in the
Secunda Pastorum		 Lawrence J. Ross Volume 1, Issue 2,
Summer 1967

Why do the Shepherds Prophesy? Thomas P. Campbell Volume 12, Issue 2,
Summer 1978
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Sei Personaggi    
Pirandello's Sei Personaggi
and Expressive Form
Jerome Mazzaro Volume 30, Issue 4,
Winter 1996-97
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Sejanus    
More's Richard III and Jonson's
Richard Crookback and Sejanus 		Robert C. Evans Volume 24, Issue 2,
Summer 1990
"No innocence is safe,/ When power
contests": The Factional Worlds of
Caesar and Sejanus 		Stuart M. Kurland Volume 22, Issue 1,
Spring 1988
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus    
Jonson's Copy of Seneca Robert C. Evans Volume 25, Issue 3,
Fall 1991
The Seneca Perspective and the
Shakespearean Poetic 		R. J. Kaufmann Volume 1, Issue 3,
Fall 1967

Trial and Terror: Medea Prima Facie Anthony Kubiak Volume 23, Issue 1,
Spring 1989
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Serious Money    
Serious Money Becomes "Business by
Other Means": Caryl Churchill's
Metatheatrical Subject
read first paragraph

Daniel Jernigan Volume 38, Issue 2,3, Summer/Fall 2004
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Seven Against Thebes    
Memory in Aeschylus'
Seven Against Thebes
Jerome Mazzaro Volume 18, Issue 2,
Summer 1984
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Seventeenth-Century Drama    
Equity and Mercy in English Law
and Drama (1405-1641) 		W. Nicholas Knight Volume 6, Issue 1,
Spring 1972
Seventeenth-Century Illustrations of
Three Masques by Jonson 		John P. Cutts Volume 6, Issue 2,
Summer 1972
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The Seventh Seal    
The Virgin Spring and The Seventh Seal:
A Girardian Reading
William Mishler Volume 30, Issue 1,
Spring 1996
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Shaffer, Peter     
Peter Shaffer's Continued Quest
for God in Amadeus		 Daniel R. Jones Volume 21, Issue 2,
Summer 1987
Placing Shaffer's Lettice and Lovage C. J. Gianakaris Volume 22, Issue 2,
Summer 1988
A Playwright Looks at Mozart:
Peter Shaffer's Amadeus		 C. J. Gianakaris Volume 15, Issue 1,
Spring 1981
Trying to Like Shaffer Michael Hinden Volume 19, Issue 1,
Spring 1985
When Playwrights Talk to God: Peter
Shaffer and the Legacy of O'Neill 		Michael Hinden Volume 16, Issue 1,
Spring 1982
Yonadab: Peter Shaffer's Earlier Dramas
Revisited in the Court of King David 		Dennis A. Klein Volume 22, Issue 1,
Spring 1988
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Shange, Ntozake    
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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Shaw, George Bernard    
G. B. Shaw’s Heartbreak House and
Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming:
Comedies of Implosion
view abstract


 Emil Roy Volume 41, Issue 3,
Fall 2007
Joan of Arc Internationale: Shaw,
Brecht, and the Law of Nations
view abstract


Julie Stone Peters Volume 38, Issue 4,
Winter 2004-05
The Playwright as Perfect Wagnerite:
Motifs from the Music Dramas in the
Theatre of Bernard Shaw 		Arthur Ganz Volume 13, Issue 3,
Fall 1979
Shaw's Saint Joan and the Modern
History Play 		Stephen Watt Volume 19, Issue 1,
Spring 1985
Wagner and Shaw: Rheingold Motifs in
Major Barbara 		Robert Coskren Volume 14, Issue 1,
Spring 1980
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe    
Artaud's Revision of Shelley's The Cenci:
The Text and its Double
Jane Goodall Volume 21, Issue 2,
Summer 1987
The Incest Motif in Shelley's The Cenci Barbara Groseclose Volume 19, Issue 3,
Fall 1985
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Shepard, Sam    
Text as Agent in Sam Shepard's
Curse of the Starving Class
Charles R. Lyons Volume 24, Issue 1,
Spring 1990
Understanding Sam Shepard's Realism William W. Demastes Volume 21, Issue 3,
Fall 1987
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The Shoemaker's Holiday    
Feasting on Ayre: Community,
Consumption, and Communion
in The Shoemaker's Holiday
 Stephen Maynard Volume 32, Issue 3,
Fall 1998
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The Singapore Trilogy    
Maturation and Political Upheaval in
Lloyd Fernando's Scorpion Orchid and
Robert Yeo's The Singapore Trilogy
read first paragraph

 Catherine Diamond  Volume 36, Issue 1,2,
Spring/Summer 2002
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Sinnekins    
"Sinnekins" and the Vice: Prolegomena

 Peter Happé
and Wim Hüsken 		Volume 29, Issue 2,
Summer 1995
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Sir Salomon    
The Originality of John Caryll's
Sir Salomon 		Richard C. Taylor

 Volume 20, Issue 3,
Fall 1986
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Sixteenth-Century Drama    
Equity and Mercy in English Law
and Drama (1405-1641) 		W. Nicholas Knight Volume 6, Issue 1,
Spring 1972
The Sixteenth-Century English
"Proverb" Play 		Paula Neuss Volume 18, Issue 1,
Spring 1984
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Skelton, John    
Fansy and Foly: The Drama of Fools
in Magnyfycence 		Peter Happé Volume 27, Issue 4,
Winter 1993-94
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Skogsrå    
The Skogsrå of Folklore and Strindberg's
The Crown Bride		 Larry E. Synergaard Volume 6, Issue 4,
Winter 1972-73
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Smith, Anne Deavere    
Extending the Breaks: Fires in the Mirror
in the Context of Hip-Hop Structure,
Style, and Culture
read first paragraph

 Steve Feffer Volume 37, Issue 3,4,
Fall/Winter 2003-04
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Socialism    
Dialog and the Socialist World:
The Spectrum of Influence 		Edward J. Czerwinski Volume 2, Issue 1,
Spring 1968
Socialist Allegory of the Absurd:
An Examination of Four
East European Plays 		Mardi Valgemae Volume 5, Issue 1,
Spring 1971
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Sofonisba    
Two Renaissance Views of Carthage:
Trissino's Sofonisba and Castellini's
Asdrubale
 Beatrice Corrigan Volume 5, Issue 3,
Fall 1971
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Song of Songs    
The Song of Songs as a Drama in the
Commentators from Origen to the
Twentieth Century 		Joseph R. Jones Volume 17, Issue 1,
Spring 1983
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Sophocles    
The Metamorphoses of Theseus in
Oedipus at Colonus 		Brian Johnston Volume 27, Issue 3,
Fall 1993
Oedipus at Colonus: A Crisis in the
Greek Notion of Deity 		Richard Forrer Volume 8, Issue 4,
Winter 1974-75
Sophocles in South Africa:
Athol Fugard's The Island 		Errol Durbach Volume 18, Issue 3,
Fall 1984
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Sorgenfrei, Carol    
The Trope of Transformation in Medea:
A Noh Cycle
view abstract
 Loren Edelson Volume 37, Issue 1,
Spring 2003
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South English Legendary    
Defining the South English Legendary
as a Form of Drama: The Relationship
Between Theory and Praxis		 Karen Bjelland Volume 22, Issue 3,
Fall 1988
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Southerne, Thomas    
Love, Death, and Mrs. Barry
in Thomas Southerne's Plays 		Helga Drougge Volume 27, Issue 4,
Winter 1993-94
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Soyinka, Wole    
The Politics of Ritual in Wole Soyinka's
The Bacchae of Euripides 		Robert Baker-White Volume 27, Issue 3,
Fall 1993
Wole Soyinka: Two Nigerian Comedies John F. Povey Volume 3, Issue 2,
Summer 1969
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Spanish Drama    
The Ensalada and the Origins
of the Lyric Theater in Spain		 Maricarmen Gómez Volume 28, Issue 3,
Fall 1994
The Theatre of the Absurd
in Spanish America 		George W. Woodyard Volume 3, Issue 3,
Fall 1969
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The Spanish Tragedy    
Harley Granville-Barker and the Response
to Spanish Theater, 1920-1932 		David Callahan Volume 25, Issue 2,
Summer 1991
The Role of "Senex" in Kyd's
The Spanish Tragedy 		Joost Daalder Volume 20, Issue 3,
Fall 1986
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Spengler, Oswald    
Nietzsche and Spengler on Hamlet:
An Elaboration and Synthesis 		William R. Brashear Volume 5, Issue 2,
Summer 1971
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Spiera, Francesco    
Unpardonable Sins: The Hazards of
Performative Language in the Tragic Cases
of Francesco Spiera and Doctor Faustus
view abstract

 Daniel Gates Volume 38, Issue 1,
Spring 2004
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Sponsus    
On the Uses of Iconographic Study:
The Example of the Sponsus From
St. Martial of Limoges 		Clifford Davidson Volume 13, Issue 4,
Winter 1979-80

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Staging    
Amphitheater Staging: In-the-Round or
to the Front (and What About Asides)?
view abstract

 Richard Fotheringham Volume 35, Issue 2,
Summer 2001
Meyerhold Meets Mei Lanfang:
Staging the Grotesque and the Beautiful

 Min Tian Volume 33, Issue 2,
Summer 1999
Noah's Flood, the River Jordan,
the Red Sea: Staging in the
Towneley Cycle

 Cynthia Haldenby Tyson Volume 8, Issue 1,
Spring 1974
A Proposal for a Theater Museum:
Staging the Fragments of Greek
and Roman Drama

 Timothy Richard Wutrich Volume 29, Issue 4,
Winter 1995-96
Soft Touch: On the Renaissance
Staging and Meaning of the
"Noli me tangere" Icon

 Cynthia Lewis Volume 36, Issue 1,2,
Spring/Summer 2002
Staging Disorder: Charivari in
the N-Town Cycle

 Richard J. Moll Volume 35, Issue 2,
Summer 2001
Staging L'Omme Pecheur and
The Castle of Perseverance

 Peter Happé Volume 30, Issue 3,
Fall 1996
The Staging of the Assumption in Europe
 J. Francesc Massip Volume 25, Issue 1,
Spring 1991
The Staging of the First Murder in the
Mystery Plays in England

 Cherrell Guilfoyle Volume 25, Issue 1,
Spring 1991
The Staging of Twelfth-Century Liturgical
Drama in the Fleury Playbook 		David Bevington Volume 18, Issue 2,
Summer 1984
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Steiner, George    
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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Stop the World—I Want to Get Off    
Stop the World—I Want to Get Off:
the Vice as Everyman 		Ina Rae Hark Volume 12, Issue 2,
Summer 1978
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Stoppard, Tom    
The Death of Representation and the
Representation of Death: Ionesco, Beckett,
and Stoppard
view abstract


 Zoran Milutinović Volume 40, Issue 3,
Fall 2006
Epistemology and Ethics in Tom
Stoppard's Professional Foul 		Richard J. Buhr Volume 13, Issue 4,
Winter 1979-80

"It Is Written": Tom Stoppard and
the Drama of the Intertext 		Kinereth Meyer Volume 23, Issue 2,
Summer 1989

Stoppard's Adaptations of Shakespeare:
Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth 		C. J. Gianakaris Volume 18, Issue 3,
Fall 1984

Tom Stoppard and "Postmodern Science": Normalizing Radical Epistemologies
in Hapgood and Arcadia

 Daniel Jernigan Volume 37, Issue 1,
Spring 2003
Tom Stoppard's Artist Descending a
Staircase: Outdoing the 'Dada' Duchamp

Katherine E. Kelly Volume 20, Issue 3,
Fall 1986
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
"Wheels within wheels, etcetera":
Artistic Design in Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern Are Dead 		William E. Gruber Volume 15, Issue 4,
Winter 1981-82
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Strindberg, August    
The Absurd World of Strindberg's
The Dance of Death 		Orley I. Holtan Volume 1, Issue 3,
Fall 1967

August Strindberg: A Modernist
in Spite of Himself		 Göran Stockenström Volume 26, Issue 2,
Summer 1992
The Dilemma of Naturalistic Tragedy:
Strindberg's Miss Julie

 Göran Stockenström Volume 38, Issue 1,
Spring 2004
Play Strindberg and the
Theater of Adaptation 		Enoch Brater Volume 16, Issue 1,
Spring 1982
The Skogsrå of Folklore and Strindberg's
The Crown Bride		 Larry E. Synergaard Volume 6, Issue 4,
Winter 1972-73
Strindberg's Cosmos in A Dream Play:
Medieval or Modern

 Göran Stockenström Volume 30, Issue 1,
Spring 1996
Strindberg's Historical Imagination:
Erik XIV		 Michael W. Kaufman Volume 9, Issue 4,
Winter 1975-76
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Suddenly Last Summer    
'Shut Up!' 'Be Quiet!' 'Hush!'
Talk and Its Supression in Three Plays
by Tennesse Williams 		Thomas F. Van Laan Volume 22, Issue 3,
Fall 1988
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Sullivan, Arthur    
Arthur Sullivan, Haddon Hall,
and the Iconic Mode 		Michael Beckerman Volume 22, Issue 1,
Spring 1988
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Sunrise    
Hedda and Bailu: Portraits of
Two "Bored" Women
 Chengzhou He Volume 35, Issue 3,4,
Fall/Winter 2001-02 
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Suor Angelica    
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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Synge, John Millington    
Transplanting the Work of “that rooted man”:
The Reception of John Millington Synge’s
Drama in Hungary
view abstract 		Maria Kurdi Volume 41, Issue 2,
Summer 2007
     

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