Fall 1993
Volume VIII
Number 1
Table of Contents
ARTICLES
Self-Possessed Jonson: Reason, Will, Ownership, Power
Tobin Nellhaus 5
Illusion, Mediation, Inter-struction and Adherence: Brecht and Gonez
August W. Staub 19
Active Interpretation/Deconstruction Play: Postmodern Considerations
of Acting in the Late Plays of Samuel Beckett
Cynthia Bishop Dillon 27
Not I: An Aborted Autobiography
Aspasia Velissariou 45
Male Ideology and Female Identity: Images of Women in Four Modern Chinese
Historical Plays
Haiping Yan 61
Pain, Passion, and Parody: A Dialogue
Jill Dolan and Vivian (Vicki) Patraka 83
Politics, Polyphony, and Pleasure: The San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Seeing Double
Stacy Wolf 101
Categorization of Speech Acts in Play and Performance Analysis
Eli Rozik 117
A Market For Monologue?
Jeane Luere 133
Playwriting and the Masks of History: An Interview with Playwright Don Nigro
Stratos E. Constantinidis 149
PRAXIS
Praxis: An Editorial Statement
Kent Neely 159
James Fisher, Joe Bradesky, Maria P. Alter and
Charles H. Helmetag, Marvin Carlson 161
NOTES ON THE NET
Notes on the Net
Ron Willis 187
BOOK REVIEWS
Verna A. Foster, Thomas P. Adler, James Fisher,
Ann Marie McEntee, John Swan, Michael Swanson 193
BOOKS RECEIVED 207