Prologue
1. Death Consciousness in William Shakespeare's Hamlet
2. William Shakespeare's Richard II: A Smashed Mirror for the Renaissance Self-Reflection
3. Victor Turner's Liminality in Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck
4. Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard vs. John Gay's The Beggar's Opera and R. B. Sheridan's The School for Scandal: The
Balance between Illusion and Reality
5. Antonin Artaud's Theater of Cruelty: The Poetry of Space and Gesture in Some Modern Plays?enrik Ibsen's The Master
Builder, August Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata, Friedrich D?renmatt's The Visit, Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs, and August
Strindberg's A Dream Play
6. Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and The Iceman Cometh: Plays about the Human Conditions
7. From the Self-Enclosing Illusion to the Communicative Human Contact in Edward Albee? Who? Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index