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In "Comic Theaters," William E. Gruber draws dramatic criticism beyond its traditional emphasis on the play's text toward a theory of theater that more fully incorporates performance. The bare text is clothed in the cultural norms and conceptions of both actor and audience in performance; in the conversion of words into action; in the actor's creation of his role; and in the audience's involvement with the scenes on stage.

Reinterpreting six comedies taken from classical Greek, Renaissance, and modern repertories, Gruber shows how dramatic meaning is derived not from traditional...

What would you do if you were given knowledge and power, even to the point of delaying death, but then found out that such a gift might cost you your soul?

A young man in Chicago faced the first question. At the same time and the same age, a young man in Boston faced the second one.

Years later, in Seattle, as both men approached mid-life, they began a ten-year relationship. During those years, as each...

When art reviewers have attempted to pin him down, Mississippi-born artist William Dunlap has called what he does -hypothetical realism.- -These places and situations don't exist, but they could, - he says. As the book Dunlap demonstrates, the artist and his work resist classification. Images of animals, flowers, Old Masters, found objects, and artifacts explode from traditional, pastoral landscapes. On the margins, in the middle ground, or in a dark lowering sky, foggy letters whisper a witty aside or reveal a crucial place name.

Dunlap creates surreal, disturbing, and sometimes...