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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Christopher Durang Explains It All for Me -- Introduction: Christopher Durang's Dark Comedy -- Chapter 1: Perverting the Classics -- The Idiots Karamazov -- Vietnamization of New Jersey: A American Tragedy -- A History of the American Film -- Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge -- Adrift in Macao -- Chapter 2: Seeking Is Believing -- The Nature and Purpose of the Universe -- Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You -- Laughing Wild -- Sex and Longing -- Miss Witherspoon -- Chapter 3: One-Act Plays -- Chapter 4: Family Dysfunction -- Titanic -- Death Comes to Us All, Mary Agnes -- 'dentity Crisis -- Baby with the Bathwater -- The Marriage of Bette and Boo -- Chapter 5: American Anomie -- Beyond Therapy -- Media Amok -- Betty's Summer Vacation -- Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them -- Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike -- Chapter 6: Critical Perspectives -- We Laugh Track People: Christopher Durang's Drama of Audience Participation Robert Combs -- The Marriage of Parody and Satire: The All-American Comedy of Christopher Durang Jay Malarcher -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.
