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COPYRIGHTED EXCERPTS IN TCLC, VOLUME 96, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING PERIODICALS:

American Quarterly, v. XVIII, Winter, 1966. Copyright 1966, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.—The Australian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, v. IV, March, 1926.—Ball State University Forum, v. XVI, Spring, 1975. Copyright 1981 by Ball State University. Reproduced by permission.—Dante Studies, 1972. Reproduced by permission.—ELH, v. 55, Summer, 1988. © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Reproduced by permission.—The Hudson Review, v. XXX, Winter, 1977-78 for a review of “Three Sisters” by Howard Moss. Copyright © 1977 by The Hudson Review, Inc. Reproduced by permission of the Literary Estate of Howard Moss.—Italian Quarterly, v. XVIII, Fall, 1974; v. XXXI, Winter-Spring, 1990. Copyright © 1974, 1990 by Italian Quarterly. Both reproduced by permission.—Italica, v. 47, Spring, 1970. Copyright © 1970 by The American Association of Teachers of Italian. Reproduced by permission.—Journal of Modern Literature, v. 16, Spring, 1990. © Temple University 1990. Reproduced by permission.—The Mississippi Quarterly, v. XXX, Fall, 1977; v. XXXVI, Spring, 1983. Copyright 1977, 1983 Mississippi State University. Both reproduced by permission.—Modern Drama, v. XXIV, September, 1981; v. XXXII, December, 1989. Copyright © 1981, 1989 University of Toronto, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. Both reproduced by permission.—Modern Language Studies, v. XIV, Fall, 1984 for “Chekhov’s ‘The Three Sisters’, Lear’s Daughters, and the Weird Sisters: The Arcana of Archetypal Influence” by Charles J. Rzepka. Copyright, Northeast Modern Language Association 1984. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and author.—The New Republic, v. 108, February 8, 1943. Copyright 1943 The New Republic, Inc. Reproduced by permission of The New Republic.—The New York Review of Books, v. XXI, October 17, 1974; v. XLIV, November 6, 1996. Copyright © 1974, 1996 Nyrev, Inc. Both reproduced with permission from The New York Review of Books.—Paideuma: A Journal Devoted to Ezra Pound Scholarship, v. 17, Fall & Winter, 1988 for “Reading Pound’s Politics: Ulysses as Fascist Hero” by Stephen Sicari; v. 18, Winter, 1989 for “Adams, Mussolini, and the Personality of Genius” by Thomas Cody. Both reproduced by permission of the publisher and the respective authors.—Papers on Language and Literature, v. 13, Fall, 1977. Copyright © 1977 by The Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Reproduced by permission.—The Political Quarterly, v. XVII, October-December, 1946. Reproduced by permission.—Political Science Quarterly, v. LXIV, September, 1949. Copyright 1949, renewed 1977, by the Editors of Political Science Quarterly. Reproduced by permission.—The Saturday Review, New York, v. XXXVII, July 17, 1954. Copyright 1954 Saturday Review Magazine, © 1979 General Media Communications, Inc. Reproduced by permission of Saturday Review Publications, Ltd.—The Times Literary Supplement, v. 32, May 11, 1933; v. 35, September 5, 1936; November 30, 1962. © The Times Supplements Limited 1933, 1936, 1962. All reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission.

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Bellamy, Richard. From Modern Italian Social Theory: Ideology and Politics from Pareto to the Present. Polity Press, 1987. Copyright © Richard Bellamy, 1987. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Stanford University Press. In the United Kingdom by Blackwell Publishers.—Diggins, John P. From Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America. Princeton University Press, 1972. Copyright © 1972 by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Princeton University Press.—Dupee, F. W. From The King of the Cats and Other Remarks on Writers and Writing. Second Edition. The University of Chicago Press, 1984. © 1984 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Literary Estate of Frederick W. Dupee.—Karlinsky, Simon. From “Huntsmen, Birds, Forests, and Three Sisters” in Chekhov’s Great Plays: A Critical Anthology. Edited by Jean-Pierre Barricelli. New

York University Press, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by New York University.—Karpinski, Joanne B. From “The Ghosts of Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters’ Haunt Beth Henley’s ‘Crimes of the Heart’” in Modern American Drama. Edited by June Schulueter. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990. © 1990 by Associated University Presses, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—Kramer, Karl D. From “Three Sisters, or Taking a Chance on Love” in Chekhov’s Great Plays: A Critical Anthology. Edited by Jean-Pierre Barricelli. New York University Press, 1981. Copyright © 1981 by New York University.— Orwell, George. From “Raffles and Miss Blandish” in The Collected Essays, Journalism and the Letters of George Orwell: As I Please, 1943-1945, Vol. III. Edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968. Copyright George Orwell 1944. Copyright © 1968 by Sonia Brownell Orwell. Renewed 1996 by Mark Hamilton. Reproduced by permission of A. M. Heath & Co. Ltd. on behalf of Bill Hamilton as the Literary Executor of the Estate of the Late Sonia Brownell Orwell and Martin Secker & Warburt Ltd. In the United States by Harcourt, Inc.—Peace, Richard. From Chekhov: A Study of the Four Major Plays. Yale University Press, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by Yale University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Simmonds, Roy S. From an Afterword in The Two Worlds of William March. The University of Alabama Press, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by Roy S. Simmonds. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Whitaker, Thomas R. From Fields of Play in Modern Drama. Princeton University Press, 1977. Copyright © 1977 by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

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Hartmann, Eduard von. The Granger Collection Ltd. Reproducted by permission.—Mussolini, Benito (portrait), photograph.