Introduction

thirteen essays in search of a reader

Brian Docherty

1-12

Female masks

Luigi Pirandello's plays for women

Susan Bassnett

13-25

The theatre of Bertolt Brecht

Theory and practice

Ronald Speirs

26-41

Witkiewicz and the theatre of death

Roger Howard

42-62

Beckett's stage of deconstruction

Lance J. Butler

63-77

Antonin Artaud and the theatre of cruelty

Bettina L. Knapp

78-91

Ionesco's plays

a conspiracy of the mind

Michael J. Hayes

92-108

The heroic world of Jean Anouilh

Alba Amoia

109-123

Arrabal's theatre of liberation

Claude Schumacher

124-145

Artaud and Genet's the maids

Gary Day

146-161

Weiss/brook

marat/sade

Graham Holderness

162-171

Time, identity and being

Peter Majer

172-182

The Germans in Britain

Anna-Marie Taylor

183-202

The theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame

Angela Montgomery

203-220