Twentieth-century European drama

Introduction - 13 essays in search of a reader, Brian Docherty female masks - Luigi Pirandello's plays for women, Susan Bassnett the theatre of Bertolt Brecht - theory and practice, Ronald Speirs Wittewicz and the theatre of death, Roger Howard Beckett's stage of deconstruction, Lance St John Butler Antonin Artaud and the theatre of cruelty, Bettina L. Knapp Ionesco's plays - a conspiracy of the mind, Michael J. Hayes the heroic world of Jean Anouilh, Alba Amoia Arrabbel's theatre of liberation, Claude Schumacher Artaud and Genet's "The Maids", Gary Day Weiss/Brooke - "Marat/Sade", Graham Holderness time, identity and being - the world of Vaclav Havel Peter Majer the Germans in Britain, Anna-Marie Taylor the theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame - laughing all the way to the revolution, Angela Montgomery.