McHale, Brian, 3–5, 22, 37, 43, 49–51, 58, 60, 62, 84, 117, 128–129, 131, 159–163, 165, 167–170, 172–176, 178, 180–181, 355, 369

McPherson, Conor, 310–311

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 29, 43

Nagy, Phyllis, 16, 310, 324

New Lad, 16, 308–313, 317–318, 324

New Man, 30, 307–309, 313, 318, 322

O’Brien, Flann, 79, 355–356

O’Neill, Eugene, 7–8, 67, 85–107, 266, 280

The Emperor Jones , 7–8, 67, 85–107

ontology, 3–4, 19–20, 24–26, 28, 36–38, 43, 47, 52, 56, 78, 112, 117, 160–163, 165–176, 178–180, 232, 298, 354, 365–366

Parks, Suzan-Lori, 127, 131

parody, 4, 6, 51, 57, 64–66, 68–71, 73–74, 77, 79, 83, 116, 122, 161, 180, 234, 273, 292

Penhall, Joe, 14, 16–18, 283, 307–326

Pale Horse , 321, 325

Some Voices , 312–313, 317, 319–322, 325

Wild Turkey , 313–318, 321–322, 325

Picasso, Pablo, 114

Pinter, Harold, 2, 14, 22, 256, 281, 354, 357, 372

Pirandello, Luigi, 3–4, 6, 15, 19, 45, 52, 58, 61–62, 67, 70–72, 83–84, 161–163, 170, 178, 180, 182, 245

Six Characters in Search of an Author , 3, 52, 58, 61, 70, 72, 83–84, 161–164, 180, 245

Quigley, Austin, 2, 256–257, 272, 281

Ravenhill, Mark, 10, 14–16, 18, 283–306, 310–311

Shopping and Fucking , 283, 288, 291, 298–299, 304, 310–311

Some Explicit Polaroids , 8

realism, 4, 12, 53, 64, 66, 72, 81, 110, 115, 131, 234, 250–252, 260, 267, 269

Rebellato, Dan, 288, 291–292, 296, 304

Rude Mechanicals, 327–347

Searle, John, 354, 370

Shakespeare, William, 5–6, 23–45, 52, 54, 59–60, 119, 163–164, 366

As You Like It , 31, 44, 60

Hamlet , 45, 49, 54, 110, 118, 163–165

King Lear , 5, 23–44, 339

Sidney, Philip, 31, 44

Sierz, Aleks, 283, 286, 291, 297, 304, 310, 321, 325

Singer, Peter, 188, 197

Stafford-Clark, Max, 291

Stein, Gertrude, 8–9, 109–132, 373

Captain Walter Arnold. A Play , 121, 131

Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights , 110, 119, 124, 126, 128, 132, 373