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Acknowledgments

The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the excerpted criticism included in this volume and the permissions managers of many book and magazine publishing companies for assisting us in securing reproduction rights. We are also grateful to the staffs of the Detroit Public Library, the Library of Congress, the University of Detroit Mercy Library, Wayne State University Purdy/Kresge Library Complex, and the University of Michigan Libraries for making their resources available to us. Following is a list of the copyright holders who have granted us permission to reproduce material in this volume of DC. Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN DC, VOLUME 19, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Theatre, v. 15, November 1998. Reproduced by permission.—The Boston Globe, April 19, 1994 for “ART’s Startiling, Scorching ‘Hot’,” by Kevin Kelly; March 7, 1997 for “Trinity’s ‘Mineola Twins’ Leads a Double Life” by Patti Hartigan. Copyright 1994 by Globe Newspaper Co. (MA). Reproduced by permission.—Confrontation: A Literary Journal of Long Island University, spring and summer 1992. Reproduced by permission.—The Drama Review: Experimental Sound and Radio, September 19, 1996 for “Stein’s Stein: A Tale from The Aphoristic Theatre” by Allen Weiss. Reproduced by permission of the author.—ELH, v. 34, March 1967. Reproduced by permission.—Film Literature Quarterly, v. 17, 1989. Reproduced by permission.—Forum–Ball State University, v. 25,spring 1984. Reproduced by permission.—The Hartford Courant, October 18, 1991; February 16, 1992. Reproduced by permission.—The Houston Chronicle, October 4, 1994; August 16, 2000; March 21, 2001. Copyright 1994, 2000, 2001, Houston Chronicle Publishing Company. Reproduced by permission.—The Lockhaven Review, 1967 for “Chapman’s Stoicism” by Marvin J. LaHood. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Massachusetts Review, spring 1993 for “Where English Speaks More Than One Language: Accents in Gertrude Stein’s Accents in Alsace” by Michaela Giesenkirchen Reproduced by permission of the author.—Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, v. 20, Fall 1987. Reproduced by permission.—New Theatre Quarterly, v. 15, May, 1999 for “Revisioning the Woman’s Part: Paula Vogel’s Desdemoma”by Sharon Friedman. Reproduced by permission of the author.—Performing Arts Journal, v. XV, January 1993; v. 16, September 1994; v. 19, January 1994. Reproduced by permission.—Renaissance and Reformation, v.11, 1975; v.12, 1976. Reproduced by permission.—The San Francisco Chronicle, November 19, 1992; April 3, 2000; October 9, 2000; October 17, 2000. Reproduced by permission.—The South Atlantic Quarterly, v. 91, summer 1992. Reproduced by permission.— South Central Review, v. 7, spring 1990 for “Some Kind of a Future: The War for Inheritance in the Work of Three American Playwrights of the 1970s” by James Schlatter. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Southern Quarterly, v. 8, October 1969. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in American Drama 1945-Present, v. 5, 1990 for “Tennessee Williams and Lanford Wilson at the Missouri Crossroads” by Gary Konas; v. 12, spring 1972; v. 22, spring 1982; v. 24, spring 1984. Reproduced by permission of Gary Konas and the publisher.—Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, v. 12, Spring 1972; v. 22, Spring 1982; v. 24, Spring 1984. © The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Literary Imagination, v. 21, fall 1988. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Philology, v. 77, spring 1980. Reproduced by permission.—Tennessee Studies in Literature, v. 17, 1972. Reproduced by permission.—Theatre History Studies, v. 6, 1986. Reproduced by permission.—Theatre Journal, v. 34, May 1982. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—The Washington Times, September 25, 1999. Reproduced by permission.— Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v. 25, 1995. Reproduced by permission.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL IN DC, VOLUME 19, WAS REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:

Adler, Thomas. From “The Artist in the Garden: Theatre Space and Place in Lanford Wilson,” in Modern Dramatists: A Case of Major British, Irish and American Playwrights. Edited by Kimball King. Routlegde, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Kimball King. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Bowers, Jane. From “The Writer in the Theater: Gertrude Stein’s Four Saints in Three Acts,”in Essays on Gertrude Stein. Edited by Michael J. Hoffman. G. K. Hall & Co., 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Michael J. Hoffman. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.—Braunmuller, A. R. From “Rare Virtues and their Impair in The Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron,”in Natural Fictions: George Chapman’s Major Tragedies. Associated University Presses, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Associated University Presses, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—DiGaetani, John L. From “Lang

ford Wilson,” in A Search for a Postmodern Theater: Interviews with Contemporary Playwrights. Edited by John L. Di-Gaetani. Greenwood Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by John L. DiGaetani. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Dolan, Jill. From “Paula Vogel’s Desdemona (A Play about a Handkerchief),” in Amazon All Starts: 13 Lesbian Plays. Applause, 1996. Copyright © 1994 by Paula Vogel. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Applause Theatre & Cinema s, LLC.—Frieling, Kenneth. From “The Becoming of Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans,”in The Twenties: fiction, poetry, drama. Edited by Warren French. Everett Edwards, Inc., 1975. Copyright © 1975 by Warren French. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—From “Lanford Wilson,” in The Playwright’s Art: Conversations with Contemporary American Dramatists. Edited by Jackson R. Bryer. Rutgers University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Rutgers, The State University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ide, Richard S. From “‘Bussy D’Ambois’ and the Quest for Virtue,” in Possessed with Greatness: The Heroic Tragedies of Chapman and Shakespeare. The University of North Carolina Press, 1980. Copyright © 1980 by The University of North Carolina Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ide, Richard S. From “Exploiting the Tradition: The Elizabethan Revenger as Chapman’s ‘Complete Man’,” in Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England: An Annual Gathering of Research, Criticism, and Reviews, Volume 1. Edited by J. Leeds Barroll, III. AMS Press, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by AMS Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Krasner, James N. From “The Tragedy of Bussy D’Ambois and the Creation of Heroism,” in Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England: An Annual Gathering of Research, Criticism, and Reviews, Volume 4. Edited by Leeds Barroll, III. Copyright © 1989 by AMS Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—MacLure, Millar. From “Tragedy,” in George Chapman: A Critical Study. The University of Toronto Press, 1966. Copyright © 1966 by The University of Toronto Press. All right reserved. Reproduced by permission.—MacPherson, David

C. From “Chapman’s Adaptations of New Comedy,” in English Miscellany: a Symposium of History Literature and the Arts, Volume 19. Edited by Mario Praz and Giorgio Melchiori. Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1968. Copyright © 1968 by Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Mellow, James. From “Foreword: The Word Plays of Gertrude Stein,” in Operas & Plays: Gertrude Stein. Station Hill Press, Inc., 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Station Hill Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Monsarrat, Gilles D. From “George Chapman: Necessity and Suicide,” in Light from the Porch: Stoicism and English Renaissance Literature, Collection Etudes Anglaises, Volume 86. Didier Erudition, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by Didier Erudition. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Neuman, Shirley. From “‘Would a viper have stung her if she had only had one name?’: Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights,”in Gertrude Stein and the Making of Literature. Edited by Shirley Neuman and Ira B. Nadel. Northeastern University Press, 1988. Chapter 11 copyright © 1988 by Shirley Neuman. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Palgrave/Macmillan. In the US by permission of Northwestern University Press.—Novy, Marianne. From “Saving Desdemona and/or Ourselves: Plays by Ann-Marie MacDonald and Paula Vogel,” in Transforming Shakespeare: Contemporary Women’s Re-Visions in Literature and Performance. St. Martin’s Press, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by St. Martin’s Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Pladott, Pladott. From “Gertrude Stein: Exile, Feminism, Avant-Garde in the American Theater,” in Modern American Drama: The Female Canon. Edited by June Schlueter. Associated University Presses, Inc., 1990. Copyright © 1990 by Associated University Presses, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Savran, David. From “Loose Screws,” in The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays, by Paula Vogel. Theatre Communications Group,1996. Copyright © 1996 by Theatre Communications Group. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Schvey, Henry. From “Images of the Past in the Plays of Lanford Wilson,” in Essays on Contemporary American Drama. Edited by Hedwig Bock and Albert Wertheim. Max Hueber Verlag, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by Max Hueber Verlag Muchen. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Venet, Gisele. From “Baroque Space and Time in Chapman’s Tragedy: The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Byron,”in French Essays on Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: “What Would France with Us?© Edited by Jean-Marie Maguine and Michele Willems. Associated University Presses, Inc., 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Associated University Presses, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

PHOTOGRAPHS APPEARING IN DC, VOLUME 19, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Chapman, George, print.—Stein, Gertrude, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Vogel, Paula, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Wilson, Lanford, photograph. Hulton/Archive. Reproduced by permission.

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