Spring 1989
Volume III
Number 2
Table of Contents
ARTICLES AND STUDIES
The Iconic Stage
Marvin Carlson 3
Ibsen’s Beginnings
Thomas F. Van Laan 19
Thinking and Talking About Acting: Re-Reading Sonia Moore’s Training an Actor
Phillip B. Zarrilli 37
Literacy, Tyranny, and the Invention of Greek Tragedy
Tobin Nellhaus 53
Relative Identity and Ideal Art: The Pirandello Conflict and Its Political Analogy
Michael L. Quinn 73
Ibsen’s Brand: Drama of the Fatherless Society
Burnet M. Hobgood 107
An Interview with David Rabe
Philip C. Kolin 135
Self and Sexuality: Contemporary British Women Playwrights and the Problem
of Sexual Identity
Susan Carlson 157
PERFORMANCE: STUDIES AND COMMENTARY
Lee Breuer’s Theatrical Technique: From The Animations to Gospel at Colonus
Kent Neely 181
Plays in Performance
Glenn Q. Pierce, Yvonne Shafer, Robert M. Kosson 193
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT:
THEATRE HISTORIOGRAPHY
History Like Theatre: An Introduction to Three Essays on New Theatre
Historiography
Weldon B. Durham 215
The Theatre Historian in the Mirror: Transformation in the Space
of Representation
Rosemarie Bank 219
Reading Context Into Performance: Theatrical Formations and Social History
Bruce A. McConachie 229
Theatre History: The Quest for Instabilities
Michal Kobialka 239