Table of Contents: “…From epic to tragedy : the birth of tragedy -- Aeschylus' Oresteia -- Euripides' Medea -- All Germains spill at once : Shakespeare's King Lear -- A tale told by a lion : Shakespeare's MacBeth -- A mistake my being born a man : O'Neill's Long day's journey into night -- Beckett's End game and the abortion of desire -- Psychoanalytic theories and tragic drama.…”
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Table of Contents: “…: Lucia di Lammermoor -- Elemental, furious, wholly true : Il trovatore -- The requisite miracle : La traviata -- The whole checkered play of life : La forza del destino -- Melt Egypt into Nile : Aida -- A figure as old as comedy : Falstaff -- The exasperated eagle and the stoic saint : Les troyens -- The sins of Wagner's youth : Rienzi -- Long day's journey into night : Tristan und Isolde -- The making of a musical legend : Palestrina -- The moon is like the moon : Salome -- Genius and morbidezza : Manon Lescaut -- Mists, sails, sounds, and impressions : Pelléas et Mélisande -- It is your turn to speak : Dialogues des Carmélites -- An opera made of songs : Porgy and Bess -- The music wrote itself : Oklahoma! …”

Table of Contents: “…. -- William Shakespeare, King Lear -- August Strindberg, Miss Julie -- August Strindberg, A dream play -- William Shakespeare, Hamlet -- Eugene O'Neill, Long day's journey into night -- Yukio Mishima, Madame de Sade -- Henrik Ibsen, A doll's house -- Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt -- William Shakespeare, The winter's tale -- J.B.P. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Barlow -- "A tale of possessors self-dispossessed" / Donald Gallup -- Trying to write the family play : autobiography and the dramatic imagination /Jean Chothia -- The nature of Long day's journey into night / Michael Manheim -- O'Neill and the cult of sincerity / Matthew H. …”

Table of Contents: “…-- Comedy is harder: Private lives; The Underpants -- Prescient plays: Far away; A number -- Clever ladies: imaginary friends; adult entertainment -- Creations: Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night; Take me out; Our lady of 121st street -- Dysfunctional families, dysgenic dynasties: Salome; Gypsy; Long day's journey into night -- Smelly orthodoxies: A bad friend; I am my own wife -- Shotover's apocalypse: Omnium gatherum; Anna in the tropics -- Palace and garden: Maria Stuart; House and garden -- The political power of puns: Caroline, or change; The beard of Avon -- A king and two queens: King Lear; Valhalla -- Homeboy Godot: topdog/Underdog; Fortune's fool -- Pyrotechnics and ice: Jimpers; Frozen -- The past revisited: The frogs; After the fall -- In the jungle: Rose Rage, Hedda Gabler -- Impersonations: Monty Python's Spamalot; Orson's shadow: Julius Caesar -- Prosecution plays: Doubt; Romance; The last days of Judas Iscariot; The Pillowman; Thom Pain; The light in the Piazza -- theatre of the mushy tushy: Le dernier caravanserail (Okyssees) -- Lear's lendings: King Lear.…”
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Table of Contents: “…: Lucia di Lammermoor -- Elemental, furious, wholly true : Il trovatore -- The requisite miracle : La traviata -- The whole checkered play of life : La forza del destino -- Melt Egypt into Nile : Aida -- A figure as old as comedy : Falstaff -- The exasperated eagle and the stoic saint : Les troyens -- The sins of Wagner's youth : Rienzi -- Long day's journey into night : Tristan und Isolde -- The making of a musical legend : Palestrina -- The moon is like the moon : Salome -- Genius and morbidezza : Manon Lescaut -- Mists, sails, sounds, and impressions : Pelléas et Mélisande -- It is your turn to speak : Dialogues des Carmélites -- An opera made of songs : Porgy and Bess -- The music wrote itself : Oklahoma! …”
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Table of Contents: “…The Iceman Cometh ; Long Day's Journey into Night ; A Touch of the Poet ; More Stately Mansions ; A Moon for the Misbegotten -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The Immigrant Church Press and the Catholic Writer, 1920-1950.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Lumet at Zenith: In the American Film Pantheon -- 12 Angry Men: Toward an Imaginative Use of Reason -- Long Day's Journey into Night: The Flight from Self-Knowledge -- Fail Safe: The Final Game -- The Pawnbroker: The Insistence of Memor -- 5. …”
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