Spring 1990
Volume IV
Number 2
Table of Contents
ARTICLES AND STUDIES
The Future of Avant-Garde Theatre and Criticism: The Case of Sam Shepard
William W. Demastes 5
The Aesthetic Effect: A Search for Common Grounds Between Brecht and Lukacs
Bela Kiralyfalvi 19
(Behond) The Pleasures of the Hollywood Musical Film: A Re-Viewing of
Martin Scorsese’s New York, New York
G. Thomas Poe 31
Foucault on Discourse: O’Neill as Discourse: LDJN (4: 125-254) Tyrone and
Edmund
Geoffrey S. Proehl 51
Toward The Dionysiac: Pagan Elements and Rites in Yerma
Robert Lima 63
Zero Reason, Infinite Need: a Note on the Calculus of Lear
Barbara M. Fisher 83
Krapp’s Last Tape: A New Reading
Lois Gordon 97
Pirandello’s Enrico IV: Mussolini as Mask, History as Masquerade
Gian Balsamo 111
Dramaturgy and Sentimentality in Antigone
Redmond O’Hanlon 125
PERFORMANCE STUDIES
Punctuation and Interpretation in Richard II
Anthony Graham-White 141
Intersections Between Feminism and Post-modernism: Possibilities For Feminist
Scenic Design
Raynette Halvorsen Smith 153
“Everyman and roach” in Retrospect: A Study of Street Theatre that Worked
Mimi Gisolfi D’Aponte 165
Clifford Odets’s Dog of Betrayal: Awake and Sing! in Performance
Robert Skloot 179
RESEARCH, PLAYS, AND BOOKS
Research Opportunities in East Berlin
Yvonne Shafer 191
Play Reviews 199
Book Reviews 213
Books Received 223