Acknowledgements 7; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION. Codifying the National Self. Spectator, Actor and the American Dramatic Text 11; Making Middlebrow Theater in America 21; Reading Drama. Plays in American Periodicals 1890-1918 39; Anna Cora Mowatt. Player and Playwright 55; The Woman Artist as Portrayed by Rachel Crothers and Heather McDonald 69; Feminist Revisions of Classic Texts on the American Stage 87; Charles Mee's Intertextual and Intercultural Inscriptions. The Suppliants vs Big Love 105; Sophie Treadwell, Jung, and the Mandala. Acting a Gendered Identity 123
Artistic Expression, Intimacy and Primal Holon in Sam Shepard 137Theo/teleological Narrative and the Narratee's Rebellion in Tony Kushner's Angels in America 153; "Captured Images." Performing the First Nations' "Other" 169; E Pluribus, Plurum. From a Unifying National Identity to Plural Identities in Susan Glaspell's Inheritors 185; Politics in Paratextual and Textual Elements in Fences 201; Food, Cultural Identity, and the Body. New Recipes for Latinas' Emerging Selves 215; Authenticity and the "Divinely Amateur." The Romantic in Richard Maxwell 233
Mamet's Actors. A Life in the Theatre and Other Writings on the Art of Acting 251The Contemporary Ethics of Violence. Cruz, Solis and Homeland Security 265; The Solace of Chocolate Squares. Thinking about Wallace Shawn 281; Notes on Contributors 295
