Spring 2004
Volume XVIII
Number 2
Table of Contents
ARTICLES
The Commodius Vicus of Beckett: Vicissitudes of the Arts in the Science of
Affliction
Herbert Blau 5
“The Death of a Dynasty” Presence in Drama and Theory: Samuel Beckett and
Jacques Derrida
Sarah Gendron 21
Theatricality, Voyeurism, and Molière’s Misanthrope: Yesterday and Today
Jessie Dickson 41
Les Trois Sultanes: French Enlightenment Comedy and the Veil
David Hammerbeck 55
Negationsgattung or the Genre of Negotiation:
Publikeumsbeschimpfung = theatre = (theatre + theatre)2
Piet Defraeye 79
Terror at the Edge of History: Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Müller
Daniel Listoe 95
PRAXIS
Historiography
Michal Kobialka 119
Jawole Zollar’s Praise House and the Ecstasy of Black Church Ritual
Anita Gonzalez 123
The Carnivalesque Satires of Muhammad al-Maghut and Durayd Lahham:
A Modern Layer of Comic Folk Drama in Arab Tradition
Mas’ud Hamdan 137