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This volume presents the best of the papers presented at the 1989 Comparative Drama Conference held annually at the University of Florida under the auspices of the Classics Department. Contents: Spatio-Temporality as Theater Performance; Subversive Sophocles, Anarchic Aeschylus: The Living Theatre and Greek Tragedy; Expressionism and Deconstructionism: A Critical Comparison; Theatrical Revolution: Edward Gordon Craig''s ''Much Ado About Nothing'' (1903); Arnolt Bronnen''s Austro-Expressionist War Plays; Camera Language: Picturing Pinter''s The Homecoming; Doubling and Irrationality in Pier Paolo Pasolini''s Medea; The Naming of Rance: Orton''s Allusions to Henrik Ibsen in What the Butler Saw; From Scenario to Script: O''Neill''s Use of History in The Creation of A Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions; Ferdinand Vanek, or Compliant Protest; Woman Takes Center Stage: Three Versions of "The Female Condition" on the German Theatre Stage Today; Beauty Non-Beauty in Euripides'' Orestes and Metope XXVII From the Parthenon; Haunting Ourselves: History and Utopia in Howard Brenton''s Bloody Poetry and Greenland; and Lameness and Limping in Southern Plays.