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COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS IN DFS, VOLUME 4, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:
Classical Quarterly, v. 38, 1988 for "Pelopid History and the Plot of Iphigenia in Taurus" by Michael J. O'Brien. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press and the author. —Commonweal, v. XXXVII, December 4,1942; v. CXIII, September 26,1986; v. CXIV, December 18,1987; v. CXIX, May 8, 1992. Copyright 1942, © 1986, 1987, 1992 Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc. All reproduced by permission of Commonweal Foundation. —Drama Survey, v. 4, Spring, 1965 for "The Averted Crucifixion of Macheath," by Bernard F. Dukore. Copyright 1965 by The Bohngbroke Society, Inc. Reproduced by permission of the author. —The Explicator, v. 43, Winter, 1985; v. 55, Fall, 1996; v. 55, Spring, 1997. Copyright © 1985, 1996, 1997 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. All reproduced with permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802. —The Hudson Review, v. XLI, Spring, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by The Hudson Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Modern Drama, v. 10, February, 1968; v. XXXm, September, 1980. © 1968, 1980 University of Toronto, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. Both reproduced by permission. —Ms., v. XIV, October, 1985 for "A One-Man Revival of Great Women's Roles: David Hare's 'Wetherby' and 'Plenty'," by Molly Haskell. Copyright © 1985 by Molly Haskell. Reproduced by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. for the author. —The Nation, v. 185, October 19, 1957. © 1957 The Nation magazine/ The Nation Company, Inc. © renewed 1985. Reproduced by permission. —The New Republic, v. 182, June 7, 1980. © 1980 The New Republic, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The New Republic. —New York, Magazine, v. 25, March 30,1992. Reproduced by permission. —The New York Times, November 19, 1942; March 4, 1947; March 3, 1956; October 2, 1957. Copyright 1942, 1947, © 1956, 1957 by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. All reproduced by permission. — Theatre Journal, v. 39, October, 1987; v. 40 October, 1988. © 1987, 1988 University College Theatre Association of the American Theatre Association. Both reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press. —Time, v. LXXXI, February 1, 1963. Copyright 1963. Time Warner Inc. Renewed November 1991 by Time, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission from Time.

COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS IN DFS, VOLUME 4, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:
Brustein, Robert. From The Third Theatre. Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Copyright © 1969 by Robert Brustein. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Random House, Inc.—Clurman, Harold. From Lies like Truth: Theatre Reviews and Essays. Macmillan, 1958. © Harold Clurman 1958. © renewed in 1986 by Juleen Compton. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Macmillan, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.— Freedman, Morris. From The Moral Impulse: Modern Drama from Ibsen to the Present. Southern Illinois University Press, 1967. Copyright © 1967 by Morris Freedman. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Southern Illinois University Press.—Rokem, Freddy. From Strindberg's Dramaturgy. Edited by Goran Stockenstrom. University of Minnesota Press, 1988. Reproduced by permission.—Skinner, Eugene R. From "The Theater of Emilio Carballido" in Dramatists in Revolt: The New Latin American Theater. Edited by Leon F. Lyday and George W. Woodyard. University of Texas Press, 1976. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN DFS, VOLUME 4, WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:
A view of the Greek Theatre at Bradfield College in Berkshire with the audience watching a performance of Goethe's play Iphigenia in Taurus, by Euripides, photograph. Hulton-Deutsch Col-lection/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Actor John Gielgud as Joseph Surface in School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan at the Queen Theatre, 1937, photograph by Gordon Anthony. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Actress Constance Collier in Sheridan's The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, photograph. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/ Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Alec Guinness as Abel Drugger in Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist, May 10,1957, photograph. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.— Brecht, Bertolt, photograph. Bettmann/UPI Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.— Death and the Maiden, by Areil Dorfman, from a movie still with Ben Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver, 1994, photograph by Francois Duhamel. Fine Line. Courtesy of The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.— Death and the Maiden, by Ariel Dorfman, from a movie still with Ben Kingsley, and Stuart Wilson, 1994, photograph by Francois Duhamel. Fine Line. Courtesy of The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—From a theater production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Mander & Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection. Reproduced by permission.—From a theater production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin Of Our Teeth, presented by the Department of Theater Arts, directed by Richard Corley at the Beigel Theater, Spingold Theater Center at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, April, 1996, photograph by Eric Levenson. Brandeis University. Reproduced by permission.—From a theatre production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's, The Threepenny Opera, directed by Ron Daniels at the Loeb Drama Center, May 1995, photograph by T. Charles Erickson. AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE. Reproduced by permission of the photographer.—From a theatre production of Eugene Ionesco's, The Bald Soprano, directed by Andrei Belgrader at the American Repertory Theatre and Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, November, 1989, photograph by Richard Feldman. AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE. Reproduced by permission of the photographer.—From a theatre production of Fedenco Garcia Lorca's The House of Bemarda Alba, with Amanda Root as Adela, Joan Plowright as La Poncia, Christine Edmonds as Magdalena, and Deborah Findlay as Martinio at The Lyric Theatre, London, September, 1986, photograph. Donald Cooper, London. Reproduced by permission.—From a theatre production of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernardo Alba, directed by Beth McGee and Francine Hart at Case Western Reserve University, Design by Russ Borski, 1994/1995 season, with Saritha Bhat, Ivettza Sanchez, Emily Smauda, Sarah Morrison, and Rachel Fink, photograph by Mike Sands. Case Western University. Reproduced by permission.—From a theatre production of Lanford Wilson's, Burn This, directed by Trish Hawkins, Iowa Summer Rep, 1991, The University of Iowa, photograph by Tom Jorgensen. University of Iowa. Reproduced by permission.—From a theatre production of Luigi Pirandello's, Sir Characters in Search of a Author, directed by Robert Brustein at the American Repertory Theatre and Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, December 3-January 14, 1996-97 revival, photograph by Richard Feldman. AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE. Reproduced by permission of the photographer.—From a theatrical production with Veronica Linford and James Daly of Miss Julie, by August Strindberg, photograph. Springer/Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Garcia Lorca, Federico, photograph. Archive Photos/Popperfoto. Reproduced by permission.—Hare, David, photograph by Daniel Locus. © Daniel Locus. Reproduced by permission of the photographer.— Look Back in Anger, by John Osborne, Jimmy Porter played by Kenneth Haigh (1) dances with his friend Cliff (Alan Bates) whilst his wife Alison does the ironing, 1956, photograph by Slim Hewitt. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Matlin, Marlee, photograph. UPI/Corbis-Bettmann. Reproduced by permission.—Medoff, Mark, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Murder in the Cathedral, by T. S. Eliot with John Westbrook as Thomas Becket being murdered at Canterbury Cathedra, September 23, 1970, photograph. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—O'Neill, Eugene, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Osborne, John, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission —Pirandello, Luigi, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.— Plenty, by David Hare, from a movie still with Meryl Streep and Charles Dance, 1985, photograph. 20th Century Fox. Courtesy of The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.— Plenty, by David Hare, from a movie still with Meryl Streep and Sting, 1985, photograph. 20th Century Fox. Courtesy of The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.— Sophocles, photograph of a illustration. Archive Photos, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—The actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell in a production of Sophocles's tragedy Electra,190%, photograph. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.— The Hairy Ape, by Eugene O'Neill, from a movie still with William Ben-dix, Susan Hayward, John Loder, and Dorothy Comingore, directed by Alfred Santell, 1944, photograph. United Artists Courtesy of The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—Wilde, Oscar, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Wilder, Thornton, photograph. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Wilson, Lanford, photograph. AP/ Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.— Dorfman, Ariel, photograph by Jerry Bauer. © Jerry Bauer. Reproduced by permission.