Table of Contents Acknowledgments v Preface 1 A Conversation with David Lindsay-Abaire (Kelly Martin Younger) 7 Visions of Tragedy in American Theatre (David Palmer, Jeffery Kennedy, Sharon Friedman, Jackson R. Bryer, Susan C.W. Abbotson, Stephen A. Marino, Natka Bianchini, Brenda Murphy, Sandra Shannon) 24 Politic Silence: Female Choruses in Lochhead's Medea and Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale (Lydia Craig) 42 Gender, Democracy and the Justice of Athena's Vote to Acquit Orestes (Jacqueline Long) 57 "Kill the Pity in Us": The Communal Crisis as Crisis of Individualism in David Grieg's Oedipus the Visionary (Phillip Zapkin) 70 With Rhyme and Reason: Hip Hop Hamlet in Prison (Elizabeth Charlebois) 87 Strange Interludes: Wallace Stevens and the Theatrical Event (Doug Phillips) 108 Spirits in Black and White: Ethiopia as the Black Columbia in African American Pageantry (Lurana Donnels O'Malley) 131 In Search of the Void: Metaphysical Theatricality in Giorgio de Chirico's The Painter's Family and Emptiness in the Arts (Davenne Essif) 154 Archives of an Ironic Film Fan: The "Tony" Drafts of The Glass Menagerie (Jeffrey B. Loomis) 173 "Bring Your Own Translator": Communication and Changing Business Paradigms in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross and David Henry Hwang's Chinglish (Martha Johnson) 185 Sympathetic Curiosity, Not Voyeurism: David Lindsay-Abaire Takes Up Joanna Baillie's Abandoned Grief Project (Amy Muse) 194 Review of Literature: Selected Books Paul Elsam. Stephen Joseph: Theatre Pioneer and Provocateur (Verna A. Foster) 209 J.
Chris Westgate. Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage: Class, Poverty, Ethnicity and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890-1916 (William Hutchings) 212 Gwendolyn Compton-Engle. Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes (Hallie Rebecca Marshall) 216 Amy Holzapfel. Art, Vision and Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama: Acts of Seeing (Michael Schwartz) 218 Ellen Ecker Dolgin. Shaw and the Actresses Franchise League: Staging Equality (Ann M. Shanahan) 221 Judith Fletcher. Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama (Daniel B. Unruh) 224 Index 229.