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A selection of the best of the papers presented at the 1986 Comparative Drama Conference held at the University of Florida, under the auspices of the Department of Classics. Contents: Leon and lena (lenz): Iridescent Reality; Hamletmaschine on Two Stage: Heiner Muller's Allegories and the Problem of Translation; Eliot, "Epipsychidion", and the Post-Modern Wasteland: Allusion in Simon Gray's Butley and Peter Gill's Mean Tears,; Schiller and Tamayo: The Influential Essay; Craig and Duse in the Charnel-House "Rosmersholm"; Dramatic Contraries: The Paine Histories of Hanns Johst and Howard Fast; Suicide Notes in Euripides' Hippolytus; Your Lips Are Better Than Weather: Primitive Psychology in Nikolai Gogol's Inspector General; Sanskrit Drama and Fin-De-Siecle Germany Frank Wedekind's Sonnenspektrum and Lion Feuchtwanger'Vasantasena; The Performance Text: Sophocles and Buchner Made Contemporaneous; How Myth Means and Functions; Man and Superman: Drama as Clash Between Social and Spiritual Exigencies; Making Serious Money: Caryl Churchill and Post-Modernist Comedy; The Through-Line of Meaning: The A-Effect in Mother Courage and Brecht.^R Co-published with the University of Florida, Department of Classics, Comparative Drama Conference.