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Amerasia Journal, v. 18, 1992; v. 20, 1994. Copyright © 1992, 1994 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Both reproduced by permission.—American Theatre, v. 17, October, 2000. Copyright © 2000, Theatre Communications Group. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Ball State University Forum, v. 11, spring, 1970. Copyright © 1970 Ball State University. Reproduced by permission.—College Literature, v. 1, fall, 1974. Copyright © 1974 by West Chester University. Reproduced by permission.—Comparative Drama, v. 15, fall, 1981. Copyright © 1981, by the Editors of Comparative Drama. Reproduced by permission.—Critical Quarterly, v. 5, summer, 1963. Reproduced by permission of Blackwell Publishing Ltd.—The Drama Review, v. 38, winter, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Reproduced by permission.—ELH, v. 33, September, 1966. Copyright © 1966 The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920, v. 25, 1982. Copyright © 1982 English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920. Reproduced by permission.— English Studies, v. 68, December, 1987 for “Etherege and a Restoration Pattern of Wit” by D. R. M. Wilkinson. Copyright

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  • © 1984 by Oxford University Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Essays in Theatre/Etudes Theatrales, v. 11, May, 1993 for “Performance, Space, and Seduction in George Etherege’s The Man of Mode (Dorset Garden Theatre, 1676)” by Paul Walsh. Copyright © 1993 by the University of Guelph, Department of Drama. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Independent Shavian, v. 34, 1996. Reproduced by permission of the Bernard Shaw Society, Inc.—Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, vol. 7, fall, 1992 for “David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly: The Eye on the Wing” by Janet V. Haedicke; v. 13, spring, 1999 for “‘No Less Human’: Making History in Suzan-Lori Parks’s The America Play” by Katy Ryan. Copyright © 1992, 1999 by the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Center for the Humanities and the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, U.S.A. Both reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—L’Esprit Créateur, v. 37, winter, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by L’Esprit Créateur. Reproduced by permission.—Literary Review, v. 42, winter, 1999 for “‘Making His Muscles Work for Himself’: An Interview with David Henry Hwang” by Bonnie Lyons. Copyright © 1999 by Fairleigh Dickinson University. Reproduced by permission of the author.—The Massachusetts Review, v. 30, spring, 1989. Copyright © 1989 by The Massachusetts Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—MELUS, v. 27, spring, 2002. Copyright, MELUS: The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 2002. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Drama, v. 5, February, 1963; v. 6, February, 1964; v. 14, December, 1971; v. 17, June, 1974; v. 20, March, 1977; v. 37, fall, 1994. Copyright © 1963, 1964, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1994 by the University of Toronto, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. All reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Quarterly, v. 30, 1969. Copyright © 1969, University of Washington. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Nature, Society, and Thought, v. 1, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—New Republic, v. 226, May 13, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by The New Republic, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, v. 1, winter, 1986; v. 10, summer, 1995. Copyright © 1986, 1995 by the University of Denver. Both reproduced by permission.—Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies,
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    Brown, Laura. From English Dramatic Form, 1660-1760: An Essay in Generic History. Yale University Press, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by Yale University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth. From “Reconfiguring History: Migration, Memory, and (Re)Membering in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Plays,” in Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in Literary History and Criticism. Edited by Robert L. McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige. University of Alabama Press, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by The University of Alabama Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Cooperman, Robert. From “New Theatrical Statements: Asian-Western Mergers in the Early Plays of David Henry Hwang,” in Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama. Edited by Marc Maufort. Peter Lang, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Peter Lang Publishing. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.— Cordner, Michael. From “Etherege’s She Would if She Could: Comedy, Complaisance and Anti-Climax,” in English Comedy. Edited by Michael Cordner, Peter Holland, and John Kerrigan. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Copyright © by Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of Cambridge University Press.—Dickey, Jerry R. From “Myths of the East, Myths of the West: Shattering Racial and Gender Stereotypes in the Plays of David Henry Hwang,” in Old West-New West: Centennial Essays. Edited by Barbara Howard Meldrum. University of Idaho Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by Barbara Howard Meldrum. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Elam, Harry, and Alice Rayner. From “Echoes from the Black (W)hole: An Examination of The America Play,” in Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater. Edited by Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor. University of Michigan Press, 1999. Copyright © by The University of Michigan Press 1999. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Elam, Jr., Harry J. From “The Postmulticultural: A Tale of Mothers and Sons,” in Crucible of Cultures: Anglophone Drama at the Dawn of a New Millennium. Peter Lang, 2002. Edited by Marc Maufort and Franca Bellarsi. Copyright © 2002 by P.I.E.-Peter Lang S.A. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Huseboe, Arthur R. From Sir George Etherege. Twayne Publishers, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by G.K. Hall & Co. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Gale Group.—Hwang, David Henry. From Golden Child. Theatre Communications Group, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by David Henry Hwang. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Hwang, David Henry. From

    M. Butterfly. Plume, 1989. Copyright © 1988 by David Henry Hwang. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Dutton Signet, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.—Jiji, Vera. From “The Plays of David Henry Hwang: The Gaze of the Medusa,” in Staging the Rage: The Web of Misogyny in Modern Drama. Edited by Katherine H. Burkman and Judith Roof. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Associated University Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Kingston, Maxine Hong. From Broken Promises: Four Plays. Avon Books, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by David Henry Hwang. Forward Copyright © 1983 by Maxine Hong Kingston. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Maxine Hong Kingston.—Moy, James S. From Marginal Sights: Staging the Chinese in America. University of Iowa Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 by University of Iowa Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the University of Iowa Press.

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