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Acknowledgments
For their encouragement, guidance, and friendship throughout, I am immensely grateful to Les Wade, Michael Tick, and Robin Roberts. I am greatly indebted to Bruce McConachie for his generous participation and to the entire staff at Cambria Press for taking on the project. In the course of the research, writing, and revision, many people have been supportive and several deserve mention by name. Thanks to the late Billy J. Harbin for getting me started. Thanks also to Michael Bowman, who was instrumental in introducing me to key texts that shaped the direction of the research, and to past teachers who show up in the work: John Lehne, Lis Orion, Robert Taylor, and Peter Bridgmont. For assistance at the University of Kentucky's Lucille Little Fine Arts Library, I thank Meg Shaw and Daniel Naas. I also thank colleagues and friends within the University of Kentucky Department of Theatre: Nancy Jones, Nelson Fields, and John Holloway. My biggest debt of gratitude and my heartfelt thanks go to my wife, Liu Zhiguang, and to our two children, Henry and Yixin.