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Index
Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: Strangers More than Ever
The Critical Divide: Defining Modernism and Postmodernism
Constituents of Postmodernism
Marat/Sade
The America Play
Part II: United Kingdom and Ireland
Chapter 2: Jewish Oedipus, Jewish Ethics
Homecoming and the Unheimisch
The Ethics of Betrayal
Chapter 3: Tom Stoppard and the Limits of Empiricism
Tom Stoppard and British Empiricism
What Exactly Is the Experience of Death?
What Exactly Is the Experience of Art and Socialism?
The Real Thing: What Really Is Real Love?
Arcadia: What Is the Experience of a “Carnal Embrace?”
Chapter 4: Caryl Churchill, Monetarism, and the Feminist Dilemma
Chapter 5: “Can’t Buy Me Love”
Edward Bond: Postmodern Violence and Postmodern Calm
Lear
“You can’t always get what you want”: David Hare and Sold-out Cynicism of Abundance
Men at Work and Play: David Storey and Trevor Griffith
British Nationalism and Colonialism on the Island of Australia
Joe Orton: Finding Winston Churchill’s Private Parts
Chapter 6: Between Past and Present
Dancing in the Middle Ground
Part III: United States
Chapter 7: “Participate, I suppose”
Mourning in the Postmodern Age
The Specter of Death in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
Three Tall Women
Chapter 8: “Ask a Criminal”
Business Is Business: American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross
Finding the Truth in True West and Fool for Love
Academia as a Battleground in Oleanna
Mamet, Shepard, and the “New Man”
Chapter 9: Modern Drama, Modern Feminism, and Postmodern Motherhood
Uncommon Women
The Unforgiving Mirror of ’night, Mother
Stuck in the Mud
How I Learned to Drive
Chapter 10: History, Reinvention, and Dialectics
Fences
The Piano as Dialectic
Wilson’s Motifs
Chapter 11: Tony Kushner’s Angels in America
Part IV: Western and Eastern Europe
Chapter 12: Post-War, Cold War, and Post-Cold War
Franz Xaver Kroetz and the Postmodern Breakdown of Language
Heiner Müller and Postmodern Inundation
Dasein in Peter Handke and Botho Strauß
Chapter 13: Eastern Europe, Totalitarianism, and the Wooden Words
Tadeusz Kantor: Theatre of Dematerialization
Dario Fo: Comic Reason and Farceur Extraordinaire
Václav Havel and the Language of Circumlocution
Part V: Postcolonial Drama
Chapter 14: The Fragmentation of the Self in Postcolonial Drama
Chapter 15: Africa: Wole Soyinka, Athol Fugard, and Christina Ama Ata Aidoo
Memory and Forgetfulness: Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman
What’s in a Name: Athol Fugard’s Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
Women’s Identity in Aidoo’s Anowa
Chapter 16: Central and South America: Carlos Fuentes and Derek Walcott
Memories and Demi-Gods: Carlos Fuentes’s Orchards in the Moonlight
Derek Walcott and the Hybridity of Colonialization
Chapter 17: Asia and the Middle East: Yukio Mishima, Gao Xingjian, Girish Karnad, Hanoch Levin, and SaaDallah Wannous
The Existentialism of Modern Asian Drama
The Divided Self of Girish Karnad
Cris de coeur in the Middle East
Chapter 18: Canada: Ann-Marie MacDonald and Judith Thompson
Falling into the Abyss
Part VI: Nihilism at the Door
Chapter 19: Crisis of Values and Loss of Center in the Plays of Martin McDonagh and Sarah Kane
Chapter 20: Blasted, The Lieutenant ofInishmore, and Phaedra’s Love
Blasted Queens in Violent Scenes
Postmodern Übermenschen: Nihilism in The Lieutenant of Inishmore and Phaedra’s Love
Chapter 21: Pushing More Boundaries: Children and Desire
Conclusion: 4.48 Psychosis and the Postmodern Hyperspace
Index
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