Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism

Fall 2001
Volume XVI
Number 1

Table of Contents

ARTICLES
The Faith-Based Initiative of the Theater of the Absurd
Herbert Blau 3

The Biblical Subtext in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
Ann Bugliani 15

Chekhov’s The Three Sisters: Exploring the Woman Question
Carol Schafer 39

Stalin’s Face: On History and its Deconstruction in Howard Baker’s
Power of the Dog
Stephen Weeks 59

Critical Modes and the “Rebellious” Playwright: Pinter’s Alaska,
Stoppard’s Arcadia
Yael Zarhy-Levo 81

“A Kind of Painful Progress”: The Benjaminian Dialects of Angels in America
Roger Bechtel 99

Phenomenology and Dramaturgy of Space and Place
John Lutterbie 123

PRAXIS
Theory and Philosophy Roundtable: Boundaries, Definitions, Provocations
Sara Freeman 133

Theory on the GrayLine Tour
Michael Vanden Heuvel 137

Philosophy and Theory
Jon Erickson 143

Why Performance Theory Needs Philosophy
David Z. Saltz 149

Theatre: Philosophy, Theory, and Criticism
Noël Carroll and Sally Banes 155

BOOK REVIEWS
James Fisher, Carol Schafer, D. Dean Shackelford 167

BOOKS RECEIVED