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Commonweal, v. CXV, June 17, 1988; v. CXVIII, June 1, 1991. Copyright © 1988, 1991 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. Both reproduced by permission of Commonweal Foundation.—The Explicator, v. 46, Fall, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.—Maclean's, v. 102, February 20,1989. © 1989 by Maclean's Magazine. Reproduced by permission.—The Nation, New York, v. 211, November 30, 1970; v. 246, June 18, 1988; v. 254, March 2, 1992. Copyright 1970, 1988, 1992 The Nation magazine/The Nation Company, Inc. All reproduced by permission.—The New Leader, v. LXXIV, February 11-25, 1991. © 1991 by The American Labor Conference on International Affairs, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The New Republic, v. 215, July 15-22,1996; v. 218, April 27, 1998. © 1996, 1998 The New Republic, Inc. Both reproduced by permission of The New Republic.— New York, Magazine, v. 14, December 14, 1981; v. 16, April 11, 1983; v. 24, February 25, 1991; v. 25, February 10, 1992; v. 29, May 13, 1996. Copyright © 1981, 1983, 1991, 1992, 1996 K-III Magazine Corporation. All rights reserved. All reproduced with the permission of New York, Magazine.—The New Yorker, v. LIX, April 11, 1983 for ' 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Saint’’ by Brendan Gill; v. LXI, December 23, 1985 for ‘‘Country Pleasures’’ by Brendan Gill; v. LXIII, January 25, 1988 for ‘‘Don Bernardo in Hell" by Mimi Kramer; v. LXVII, February 10, 1992 for "Stopover" by Edith Oliver. © by the authors 1983, 1985, 1998. All rights reserved. All reproduced by permission.—The New Yorker, v. LXX, February 21, 1994 for ‘‘Laughing It Off’’ by John Lahr. © 1994 by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. on behalf of the author.

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Nash, Jay Robert and Stanley Ralph Ross. From a review of The Ruling Class in The Motion Picture Guide: N-R, 1927-1983. Edited by Jay Robert Nash and Stanley Ralph Ross. Cinebooks, Inc., 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Cinebooks, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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Coward, Sir Noel, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Euripides, photograph of a bust. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Fierstein, Harvey, photograph by Angel Franco. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—From a movie still of Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon, Directed by Gene Saks, with Jonathan Silverman as Eugene, 1986, Universal, Eugene is under the kitchen table looking up the women's skirts, photograph. Universal. Courtesy of The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—From a movie still of Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon, Directed by Gene Saks, with Jonathan Silverman as Eugene and Bob Dishy as Jack, 1986, Universal, Eugene helps his father carry a package home from work, photograph. Universal. Courtesy of The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—From a movie still of The Ruling Class by Peter Barnes, Directed by Peter Medak, with Peter O'Toole as Jack Arnold Alexander Tancred Gurney, 14th Earl of Gurney and Arthur Lowe as Tucker, 1972, An Avco Embassy Film, photograph. United Artists. Courtesy of The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.— From a movie still of Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein, Directed by Paul Bogart, with Harvey Fierstein as Arnold, 1988, New Line Cinema, impersonator Arnold Beckoff, aka nightclub entertainer ‘‘Virginia Hamm’’ is on stage with another female impersonator and two muscle men, photograph. New Line Cinema. Courtesy of The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—From a movie still of Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein, Directed by Paul Bogart, with Matthew Broderick as Alan and Harvey Fierstein as Arnold, 1988, New Line Cinema, Alan and Arnold are laying on a bed while Alan is writing, photograph. New Line Cinema. Courtesy of The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—From a theatre production of Buried Child by Sam Shepard, Directed by Marcus Stern, with Jack Willis as Tilden at the American Repertory Theatre and Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, 1995-96 season, Tilden standing in a field of corn holding a child, photograph by Richard Feldman. AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE. Reproduced by permission of the photographer.— From a theatre production of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones with Paul Robeson as Emperor Jones, circa 1933, a smiling Emperor Jones sits on his throne, photograph. Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—From a theatre production of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman with Peter O'Toole at the Haymarket Theatre, London, August, 1983, photograph by Richard Olivier. Richard Olivier/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.— From a theatre production of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler with Catherine Wilkin at the Downstage Theatre Company, Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1990, Hedda is holding a gun to her right temple, photograph by Robbie Jack. CORBIS/Robbie Jack. Reproduced by permission.— From a theatre production of Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw with Richard Wilson and Debra Gillet at the National Theatre, London, March, 1995, Gillet is standing in her underwear while Wilson holds a gun to her, photograph by Robbie Jack. Robbie Jack/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—From a theatre production of Noel Coward's Hay Fever with Constance Collier at Shaftesbury Theatre, London, 1932, photograph by Sasha. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.— From a theatre production of Speed the Plow by David Mamet, Directed by Gregory Mosher, Produced by Lincoln Center Theater, with Joe Mantegna, Madonna and Ron Silver at the Royal Theatre, May, 1988, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—From a theatre production of The Bacchae by Euripides, with Roger Frost as Teiresias and Wilbert Johnson as Cadmus, Shared Experience/Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, 1988, photograph. © Donald Cooper/Photostage. Reproduced by permission.—Fugard, Athol, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Hughes, Langston, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Hurston, Zora Neale, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Ibsen, Henrik, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Mamet, David, photograph by Brigitte Lacombe. Grove/ Atlantic, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—O'Neill, Eugene G., photograph. 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at the Circle in the Square Theater, NY, silhouettes of a man and a woman, photograph. PLAYBILL (r) is a registered trademark of Playbill Incorporated, N.Y.C. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—The July, 1970, Playbill for Athol Fugard's Boesman and Lena, Directed by John Berry, with James Earl Jones as Boesman, Ruby Dee as Lena and Zakes Mokae as Old African, at the Circle in the Square Theater, NY, Credit page, photograph. PLAYBILL (r) is a registered trademark of Playbill Incorporated, N.Y.C. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Turgenev, Ivan, photograph. The Library of Congress.