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Subject/Essay Author Location
Sachs, Hans    
The Birth of Reason from the Spirit
of Carnival: Hans Sachs and
Das Narren-Schneyden
Ralf Erik Remhardt Volume 23, Issue 1
Spring 1989
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Saint Joan    
Shaw's Saint Joan and the Modern
History Play 		Stephen Watt Volume 19, Issue 1
Spring 1985
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Salomé    
The Daughters of Herodias in Hérodiade,
Salomé, and A Full Moon in March 		Marilyn Gaddis Rose Volume 1, Issue 3
Fall 1967
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Sanskrit Drama    
Sanskrit Drama: Theory and
Performance 		V. Raghavan Volume 1, Issue 1
Spring 1967
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Sardou, Victorien    
Measure for Measure, Montmorency,
and Sardou's La Tosca		 Mark Eccles Volume 14, Issue 1
Spring 1980
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Sartre, Jean-Paul    
Doctor Faustus from Adam to Sartre Erich Kahler Volume 1, Issue 2
Summer 1967
Sartre on Brecht: The Dialectics
of Revolutionary Theatre 		Farris Anderson Volume 3, Issue 4
Winter 1969-70
Towards a Theater of Immobility:
Henry IV, The Condemned of
Altona, and The Balcony

Mary Ann Frese Witt Volume 24, Issue 2
Summer 1990
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Sauspiel    
Martin Walser's Sauspiel and the
Contemporary German History Play 		Gerald A. Fetz Volume 12, Issue 3
Fall 1978
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Savages    
The Director Intervenes: Christopher
Hampton's Savages		 Peter Holland Volume 13, Issue 2
Summer 1979
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Scale of Perfection    
"Blake and wyght, fowll and fayer":
Stage Picture in Wisdom Who Is Christ 		David Bevington Volume 19, Issue 2
Summer 1985
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Schiller, Friedrich    
Staging Act Five of Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell
view abstract
 Timothy Richard Wutrich Volume 40, Issue 1
Spring 2006
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The School for Scandal    
Sheridan, The School for Scandal,
and Aggression
view abstract		 James Thompson Volume 42, Issue 1
Spring 2008
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Schumann, Robert    
Schumann's Genoveva as German
Romantic Drama 		Linda Siegel Volume 6, Issue 4
Winter 1972-73
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Scorpion Orchid    
Maturation and Political Upheaval in
Lloyd Fernando's Scorpion Orchid and
Robert Yeo's The Singapore Trilogy
read first paragraph

 Catherine Diamond  Volume 36, Issue 1,2
Spring/Summer 2002
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The Screens    
Genet's The Blacks and The Screens:
Dialectic of Refusal and Revolutionary
Consciousness 		W. F. Sohlich Volume 10, Issue 3
Fall 1976
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The Sea Gull    
Irony and Theatricality in Chekhov's
The Sea Gull 		Carol Strongin Volume 15, Issue 4
Winter 1981-82
Opening The Notebook of Trigorin:
An Analysis of Tennessee Williams’s
Adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull
view abstract		 Zackary Ross Volume 45, Issue 3
Fall 2011
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The Second Sheperds' Play    
Musical Structure in the
Second Sheperds' Play 		Regula Meyer Evitt Volume 22, Issue 4
Winter 1988-89
The Shepherd's Gifts in
The Second Shepherds' Play
and Bosch's "Adoration of the Magi" 		John P. Cutts Volume 4, Issue 2
Summer 1970
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The Secret Life    
Doing the Usual Things: Gender, Race, and
Inwardness in Harley Granville Barker’s The
Marrying of Ann Leete and The Secret Life
view abstract		 Christopher Wixson  Volume 43, Issue 4
Winter 2009
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Secunda Pastorum    
Symbol and Structure in the
Secunda Pastorum		 Lawrence J. Ross Volume 1, Issue 2
Summer 1967

Why do the Shepherds Prophesy? Thomas P. Campbell Volume 12, Issue 2
Summer 1978
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Sei Personaggi    
Pirandello's Sei Personaggi
and Expressive Form
Jerome Mazzaro Volume 30, Issue 4
Winter 1996-97
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Sejanus    
More's Richard III and Jonson's
Richard Crookback and Sejanus 		Robert C. Evans Volume 24, Issue 2
Summer 1990
"No innocence is safe,/ When power
contests": The Factional Worlds of
Caesar and Sejanus 		Stuart M. Kurland Volume 22, Issue 1
Spring 1988
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus    
Jonson's Copy of Seneca Robert C. Evans Volume 25, Issue 3
Fall 1991
The Seneca Perspective and the
Shakespearean Poetic 		R. J. Kaufmann Volume 1, Issue 3
Fall 1967

Trial and Terror: Medea Prima Facie Anthony Kubiak Volume 23, Issue 1
Spring 1989
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Serious Money    
Serious Money Becomes "Business by
Other Means": Caryl Churchill's
Metatheatrical Subject
read first paragraph

Daniel Jernigan Volume 38, Issue 2,3 Summer/Fall 2004
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Seven Against Thebes    
Memory in Aeschylus'
Seven Against Thebes
Jerome Mazzaro Volume 18, Issue 2
Summer 1984
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Seventeenth-Century Drama    
Equity and Mercy in English Law
and Drama (1405-1641) 		W. Nicholas Knight Volume 6, Issue 1
Spring 1972
Seventeenth-Century Illustrations of
Three Masques by Jonson 		John P. Cutts Volume 6, Issue 2
Summer 1972
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The Seventh Seal    
The Virgin Spring and The Seventh Seal:
A Girardian Reading
William Mishler Volume 30, Issue 1
Spring 1996
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Shadwell, Thomas    
Gimcrack’s Legacy: Sex, Wealth, and the
Theater of Experimental Philosophy
view 1st paragraph		 Tita Chico Volume 42, Issue 1
Spring 2008
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Shaffer, Peter     
The Biblical Intertext in Peter Shaffer’s
Amadeus (Or, Saul and David in
Eighteenth-Century Vienna)
view abstract

Nehama Aschkenasy Volume 44, Issue 1
Spring 2010
Peter Shaffer's Continued Quest
for God in Amadeus		 Daniel R. Jones Volume 21, Issue 2
Summer 1987
Placing Shaffer's Lettice and Lovage C. J. Gianakaris Volume 22, Issue 2
Summer 1988
A Playwright Looks at Mozart:
Peter Shaffer's Amadeus		 C. J. Gianakaris Volume 15, Issue 1
Spring 1981
Trying to Like Shaffer Michael Hinden Volume 19, Issue 1
Spring 1985
When Playwrights Talk to God: Peter
Shaffer and the Legacy of O'Neill 		Michael Hinden Volume 16, Issue 1
Spring 1982
Yonadab: Peter Shaffer's Earlier Dramas
Revisited in the Court of King David 		Dennis A. Klein Volume 22, Issue 1
Spring 1988
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Shange, Ntozake    
Nonverbal Theatrical Elements in
Ntozake Shange's for colored girls…
and Intissar Abdel-Fatah's Makhadet
El-Kohl (The Kohl Pillow)
read first paragraph


Dalia El-Shayal Volume 37, Issue 3,4
Fall/Winter 2003-04
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Shaw, George Bernard    
G. B. Shaw’s Heartbreak House and
Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming:
Comedies of Implosion
view abstract


 Emil Roy Volume 41, Issue 3
Fall 2007
Joan of Arc Internationale: Shaw,
Brecht, and the Law of Nations
view abstract


Julie Stone Peters Volume 38, Issue 4
Winter 2004-05
Play Doctor, Doctor Death: Shaw,
Ibsen, and Modern Tragedy
view abstract


 Bert Cardullo Volume 45, Issue 3
Fall 2011
The Playwright as Perfect Wagnerite:
Motifs from the Music Dramas in the
Theatre of Bernard Shaw 		Arthur Ganz Volume 13, Issue 3
Fall 1979
Shaw's Saint Joan and the Modern
History Play 		Stephen Watt Volume 19, Issue 1
Spring 1985
Wagner and Shaw: Rheingold Motifs in
Major Barbara 		Robert Coskren Volume 14, Issue 1
Spring 1980
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe    
Artaud's Revision of Shelley's The Cenci:
The Text and its Double
Jane Goodall Volume 21, Issue 2
Summer 1987
The Incest Motif in Shelley's The Cenci Barbara Groseclose Volume 19, Issue 3
Fall 1985
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Shepard, Sam    
Text as Agent in Sam Shepard's
Curse of the Starving Class
Charles R. Lyons Volume 24, Issue 1
Spring 1990
Understanding Sam Shepard's Realism William W. Demastes Volume 21, Issue 3
Fall 1987
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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley    
Sheridan, The School for Scandal,
and Aggression
view abstract		 James Thompson Volume 42, Issue 1
Spring 2008
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The Shoemaker's Holiday    
Being Mistress Eyre in Dekker's
The Shoemaker's Holiday and Deloney's
The Gentle Craft
view abstract

Ann C. Christensen Volume 42, Issue 4
Winter 2008
Feasting on Ayre: Community,
Consumption, and Communion
in The Shoemaker's Holiday
 Stephen Maynard Volume 32, Issue 3
Fall 1998
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The Singapore Trilogy    
Maturation and Political Upheaval in
Lloyd Fernando's Scorpion Orchid and
Robert Yeo's The Singapore Trilogy
read first paragraph

 Catherine Diamond  Volume 36, Issue 1,2
Spring/Summer 2002
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Sinnekins    
"Sinnekins" and the Vice: Prolegomena

 Peter Happé
and Wim Hüsken 		Volume 29, Issue 2
Summer 1995
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Sir Salomon    
The Originality of John Caryll's
Sir Salomon 		Richard C. Taylor

 Volume 20, Issue 3
Fall 1986
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Sixteenth-Century Drama    
Equity and Mercy in English Law
and Drama (1405-1641) 		W. Nicholas Knight Volume 6, Issue 1
Spring 1972
The Sixteenth-Century English
"Proverb" Play 		Paula Neuss Volume 18, Issue 1
Spring 1984
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Skelton, John    
Fansy and Foly: The Drama of Fools
in Magnyfycence 		Peter Happé Volume 27, Issue 4
Winter 1993-94
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Skogsrå    
The Skogsrå of Folklore and Strindberg's
The Crown Bride		 Larry E. Synergaard Volume 6, Issue 4
Winter 1972-73
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Smith, Anne Deavere    
Extending the Breaks: Fires in the Mirror
in the Context of Hip-Hop Structure,
Style, and Culture
read first paragraph

 Steve Feffer Volume 37, Issue 3,4
Fall/Winter 2003-04
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Socialism    
Dialog and the Socialist World:
The Spectrum of Influence 		Edward J. Czerwinski Volume 2, Issue 1
Spring 1968
Socialist Allegory of the Absurd:
An Examination of Four
East European Plays 		Mardi Valgemae Volume 5, Issue 1
Spring 1971
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Sofonisba    
Two Renaissance Views of Carthage:
Trissino's Sofonisba and Castellini's
Asdrubale
 Beatrice Corrigan Volume 5, Issue 3
Fall 1971
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Song of Songs    
The Song of Songs as a Drama in the
Commentators from Origen to the
Twentieth Century 		Joseph R. Jones Volume 17, Issue 1
Spring 1983
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Sophocles    
The Metamorphoses of Theseus in
Oedipus at Colonus 		Brian Johnston Volume 27, Issue 3
Fall 1993
Oedipus and Afrikaans Theater
view abstract		 Betine Van Zyl Smit Volume 44.1/45.1
Winter 2010/
Spring 2011

Oedipus at Colonus: A Crisis in the
Greek Notion of Deity
Richard Forrer Volume 8, Issue 4
Winter 1974-75
Oedipus, Shmedipus: Ancient Greek
Drama on the Yiddish Stage
view abstract


 Debra Caplan Volume 44.1/45.1
Winter 2010/
Spring 2011
Oedipus, Suez, and Hungary: T. S. Eliot’s
Tradition and The Elder Statesman
view abstract

 Michael Simpson Volume 44.1/45.1
Winter 2010/
Spring 2011
Sophocles in South Africa:
Athol Fugard's The Island 		Errol Durbach Volume 18, Issue 3
Fall 1984
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Sorgenfrei, Carol    
The Trope of Transformation in Medea:
A Noh Cycle
view abstract
 Loren Edelson Volume 37, Issue 1
Spring 2003
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South English Legendary    
Defining the South English Legendary
as a Form of Drama: The Relationship
Between Theory and Praxis		 Karen Bjelland Volume 22, Issue 3
Fall 1988
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Southerne, Thomas    
Love, Death, and Mrs. Barry
in Thomas Southerne's Plays
Helga Drougge Volume 27, Issue 4
Winter 1993-94
The Paradoxes of Slavery in Thomas
Southerne’s Oroonoko
view abstract		 Diana Jaher Volume 42, Issue 1
Spring 2008
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Soyinka, Wole    
“The End of Nigerian History”: Wole
Soyinka and Yorùbá Historiography
view abstract

 Glenn A. Odom  Volume 42, Issue 2
Summer 2008
The Politics of Ritual in Wole Soyinka's
The Bacchae of Euripides 		Robert Baker-White Volume 27, Issue 3
Fall 1993
Soyinka and the Dead Dramatist
view abstract

Kenneth J.E. Graham Volume 44, Issue 1
Spring 2010
Wole Soyinka: Two Nigerian Comedies John F. Povey Volume 3, Issue 2
Summer 1969
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Spanish Drama    
The Ensalada and the Origins
of the Lyric Theater in Spain		 Maricarmen Gómez Volume 28, Issue 3
Fall 1994
The Theatre of the Absurd
in Spanish America 		George W. Woodyard Volume 3, Issue 3
Fall 1969
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The Spanish Tragedy    
Harley Granville-Barker and the Response
to Spanish Theater, 1920-1932 		David Callahan Volume 25, Issue 2
Summer 1991
The Role of "Senex" in Kyd's
The Spanish Tragedy 		Joost Daalder Volume 20, Issue 3
Fall 1986
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Spengler, Oswald    
Nietzsche and Spengler on Hamlet:
An Elaboration and Synthesis 		William R. Brashear Volume 5, Issue 2
Summer 1971
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Spiera, Francesco    
Unpardonable Sins: The Hazards of
Performative Language in the Tragic Cases
of Francesco Spiera and Doctor Faustus
view abstract

 Daniel Gates Volume 38, Issue 1
Spring 2004
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Sponsus    
On the Uses of Iconographic Study:
The Example of the Sponsus From
St. Martial of Limoges 		Clifford Davidson Volume 13, Issue 4
Winter 1979-80

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Staging    
Amphitheater Staging: In-the-Round or
to the Front (and What About Asides)?
view abstract

 Richard Fotheringham Volume 35, Issue 2
Summer 2001
Meyerhold Meets Mei Lanfang:
Staging the Grotesque and the Beautiful

 Min Tian Volume 33, Issue 2
Summer 1999
Noah's Flood, the River Jordan,
the Red Sea: Staging in the
Towneley Cycle

 Cynthia Haldenby Tyson Volume 8, Issue 1
Spring 1974
A Proposal for a Theater Museum:
Staging the Fragments of Greek
and Roman Drama

 Timothy Richard Wutrich Volume 29, Issue 4
Winter 1995-96
Soft Touch: On the Renaissance
Staging and Meaning of the
"Noli me tangere" Icon

 Cynthia Lewis Volume 36, Issue 1,2
Spring/Summer 2002
Staging Disorder: Charivari in
the N-Town Cycle

 Richard J. Moll Volume 35, Issue 2
Summer 2001
Staging L'Omme Pecheur and
The Castle of Perseverance

 Peter Happé Volume 30, Issue 3
Fall 1996
The Staging of the Assumption in Europe
 J. Francesc Massip Volume 25, Issue 1
Spring 1991
The Staging of the First Murder in the
Mystery Plays in England

 Cherrell Guilfoyle Volume 25, Issue 1
Spring 1991
The Staging of Twelfth-Century Liturgical
Drama in the Fleury Playbook 		David Bevington Volume 18, Issue 2
Summer 1984
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Steele, Richard    
Why did Steele’s The Lying Lover fail?
Or, The Dangers of Sentimentalism in the
Comic Reform Scene
view abstract		 Aparna Gollapudi Volume 45, Issue 3
Fall 2011
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Steiner, George    
Irish Babel: Brian Friel's Translations
and George Steiner's After Babel 		F. C. McGrath Volume 23, Issue 1
Spring 1989
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Stop the World—I Want to Get Off    
Stop the World—I Want to Get Off:
the Vice as Everyman 		Ina Rae Hark Volume 12, Issue 2
Summer 1978
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Stoppard, Tom    
The Death of Representation and the
Representation of Death: Ionesco, Beckett,
and Stoppard
view abstract


 Zoran Milutinović Volume 40, Issue 3
Fall 2006
Epistemology and Ethics in Tom
Stoppard's Professional Foul 		Richard J. Buhr Volume 13, Issue 4
Winter 1979-80

"It Is Written": Tom Stoppard and
the Drama of the Intertext 		Kinereth Meyer Volume 23, Issue 2
Summer 1989

Playing for Time (and Playing with Time)
in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia
read first paragraph

 Enoch Brater Volume 39, Issue 2
Summer 2005 
Stoppard's Adaptations of Shakespeare:
Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth 		C. J. Gianakaris Volume 18, Issue 3
Fall 1984

Tom Stoppard and "Postmodern Science": Normalizing Radical Epistemologies
in Hapgood and Arcadia
read first paragraph
Daniel Jernigan Volume 37, Issue 1
Spring 2003
Tom Stoppard's Artist Descending a
Staircase: Outdoing the 'Dada' Duchamp

Katherine E. Kelly Volume 20, Issue 3
Fall 1986
Using Comic Devices to Answer the
Ultimate Question: Tom Stoppard's
Jumpers and Woody Allen's God		 Felicia Hardison Londré Volume 14, Issue 4
Winter 1980-81
"Wheels within wheels, etcetera":
Artistic Design in Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern Are Dead 		William E. Gruber Volume 15, Issue 4
Winter 1981-82
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Strindberg, August    
The Absurd World of Strindberg's
The Dance of Death 		Orley I. Holtan Volume 1, Issue 3
Fall 1967

August Strindberg: A Modernist
in Spite of Himself		 Göran Stockenström Volume 26, Issue 2
Summer 1992
The Dilemma of Naturalistic Tragedy:
Strindberg's Miss Julie
read first paragraph

Göran Stockenström Volume 38, Issue 1
Spring 2004
Play Strindberg and the
Theater of Adaptation 		Enoch Brater Volume 16, Issue 1
Spring 1982
The Skogsrå of Folklore and Strindberg's
The Crown Bride		 Larry E. Synergaard Volume 6, Issue 4
Winter 1972-73
Strindberg's Cosmos in A Dream Play:
Medieval or Modern

 Göran Stockenström Volume 30, Issue 1
Spring 1996
Strindberg's Historical Imagination:
Erik XIV		 Michael W. Kaufman Volume 9, Issue 4
Winter 1975-76
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Suddenly Last Summer    
'Shut Up!' 'Be Quiet!' 'Hush!'
Talk and Its Supression in Three Plays
by Tennesse Williams 		Thomas F. Van Laan Volume 22, Issue 3
Fall 1988
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Sullivan, Arthur    
Arthur Sullivan, Haddon Hall,
and the Iconic Mode 		Michael Beckerman Volume 22, Issue 1
Spring 1988
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Sunrise    
Hedda and Bailu: Portraits of
Two "Bored" Women
 Chengzhou He Volume 35, Issue 3,4
Fall/Winter 2001-02 
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Suor Angelica    
Machines for the Supression of Time:
Statues in Suor Angelica, The
Winter's Tale, and Alcestis

Robert C. Ketterer Volume 24, Issue 1
Spring 1990
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Synge, John Millington    
Transplanting the Work of “that rooted man”:
The Reception of John Millington Synge’s
Drama in Hungary
view abstract 		Mária Kurdi Volume 41, Issue 2
Summer 2007

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