BRIAN DOCHERTY is a Tutor in Literature for Birbeck College Centre for Extra-Mural Studies in London. He is co-editor of Nineteenth-Century Suspense: Form Poe to Conan Doyle, editor of American Crime Fiction: Studies in the Genre, American Horror Fiction: From Brockden Brown to Stephen King, Twentieth-Century American Drama, Twentieth-Century European Drama, American Modernist Poetry, Twentieth-Century British Poetry, 1900-50, Twentieth-Century British Poetry, 1950-90, and The Beat Generation.

• Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: Thirteen Essays in Search of a Reader; B.Docherty - Female Masks: Luigi Pirandello's Plays for Women; S.Bassnett - The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: Theory and Practice; R.Speirs - Witkewicz and the Theatre of Death; R.Howard - Beckett's Stage of Deconstruction; L.St John Butler - Antonin Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty; B.L.Knapp - Ionesco's Plays: A Conspiracy of the Mind; M.J.Hayes - The Heroic World of Jean Anouilh; A.Amoia - Arrabal's Theatre of Liberation; C.Schumacher - Artaud and Genet's The Maids; G.Day - Weiss/Brooke: Marat/Sade; G.Holderness - Time, Identity and Being: The World of Vaclav Havel; P.Majer - The Germans in Britain; A-M.Taylor - The Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Laughing All the Way to the Revolution; A.Montgomery - Index