I would like to thank series editors Richard Boon and Philip Roberts for their unflagging wit and wise advice. The guest contributors Sara Freeman, Sarah Goldingay and David Lane have been a source of great insight and scholarship, and Cathy Turner and Graham Ley generously offered ideas, critique and their well-stocked libraries. I would like to thank Mark Dudgeon for his patient care, and the staff at Methuen Drama. And grateful thanks should go to Howard Barker and to Sarah Daniels for their generous gift of time and creative words, and to Jim Cartwright, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Mel Kenyon and A.J. Associates.