LESLIE KANE is Professor of English at Westfield State College where she teaches modern drama and world literature. She is the author of The Language of Silence: On the Unspoken and the Unspeakable in Modern Drama and editor of David Mamet: A Casebook. Her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and books, including The Pinter Review, World Literature Today, The Yearbook of English Studies, Theatre Journal,and Feminine Focus: The New Women Playwrights. She is currently writing Weasels and Wisemen: A Study of Jewish Identity in the Plays of Harold Pinter and David Mamet. Kane is vice-president of the Harold Pinter Society.

• Preface Chronology Introduction by Leslie Kane "We Gotta' Hang Together": Horovitz and the National Cycles of Violence by William Demastes Ins and Outs: The Ethnic World of Israel Horovitz by Robert Skloot O'Neill and Horovitz: Toward Home by Robert Combs The Influence of Aeschylus's Oresteia on Israel Horovitz's Alfred Trilogy by Dennis A. Klein Double Mixed Memories by Liliane Kerjan The Widow's Blind Date: "A Shitload of Getting Together" by Leslie Kane The Unkindness of Strangers: Violence and Homosexual Subtexts in Israel Horovitz by John Watkins and Andrew Elfenbein The Influence of Samuel Beckett on Israel Horovitz by Robert Scanlan The Place, the Thing: Israel Horovitz's Gloucester Milieu by Thomas F. Connolly Portraits of Wo(Men) in Israel Horovitz's North Shore Fish and Park Your Car in Harvard Yard by Susan C. Haedicke Machismo in Massachusetts: Israel Horovitz's Unpublished Screenplays The Deuce and Strong-Men by Ann C. Hall Israel Horovitz's Strong-Man's Weak Child/Strong-Men: From Stage Play to Screenplay by Steven H. Gale Ed Lemon: Prophet of Profit by Martin J. Jacobi Interview with Israel Horovitz by Leslie Kane Primary Bibliography Selected Secondary Bibliography

LESLIE KANE is Professor of English at Westfield State College where she teaches modern drama and world literature. She is the author of The Language of Silence: On the Unspoken and the Unspeakable in Modern Drama and editor of David Mamet: A Casebook. Her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and books, including The Pinter Review, World Literature Today, The Yearbook of English Studies, Theatre Journal,and Feminine Focus: The New Women Playwrights. She is currently writing Weasels and Wisemen: A Study of Jewish Identity in the Plays of Harold Pinter and David Mamet. Kane is vice-president of the Harold Pinter Society.

• Preface Chronology Introduction by Leslie Kane "We Gotta' Hang Together": Horovitz and the National Cycles of Violence by William Demastes Ins and Outs: The Ethnic World of Israel Horovitz by Robert Skloot O'Neill and Horovitz: Toward Home by Robert Combs The Influence of Aeschylus's Oresteia on Israel Horovitz's Alfred Trilogy by Dennis A. Klein Double Mixed Memories by Liliane Kerjan The Widow's Blind Date: "A Shitload of Getting Together" by Leslie Kane The Unkindness of Strangers: Violence and Homosexual Subtexts in Israel Horovitz by John Watkins and Andrew Elfenbein The Influence of Samuel Beckett on Israel Horovitz by Robert Scanlan The Place, the Thing: Israel Horovitz's Gloucester Milieu by Thomas F. Connolly Portraits of Wo(Men) in Israel Horovitz's North Shore Fish and Park Your Car in Harvard Yard by Susan C. Haedicke Machismo in Massachusetts: Israel Horovitz's Unpublished Screenplays The Deuce and Strong-Men by Ann C. Hall Israel Horovitz's Strong-Man's Weak Child/Strong-Men: From Stage Play to Screenplay by Steven H. Gale Ed Lemon: Prophet of Profit by Martin J. Jacobi Interview with Israel Horovitz by Leslie Kane Primary Bibliography Selected Secondary Bibliography

LESLIE KANE is Professor of English at Westfield State College where she teaches modern drama and world literature. She is the author of The Language of Silence: On the Unspoken and the Unspeakable in Modern Drama and editor of David Mamet: A Casebook. Her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and books, including The Pinter Review, World Literature Today, The Yearbook of English Studies, Theatre Journal,and Feminine Focus: The New Women Playwrights. She is currently writing Weasels and Wisemen: A Study of Jewish Identity in the Plays of Harold Pinter and David Mamet. Kane is vice-president of the Harold Pinter Society.

• Preface Chronology Introduction by Leslie Kane "We Gotta' Hang Together": Horovitz and the National Cycles of Violence by William Demastes Ins and Outs: The Ethnic World of Israel Horovitz by Robert Skloot O'Neill and Horovitz: Toward Home by Robert Combs The Influence of Aeschylus's Oresteia on Israel Horovitz's Alfred Trilogy by Dennis A. Klein Double Mixed Memories by Liliane Kerjan The Widow's Blind Date: "A Shitload of Getting Together" by Leslie Kane The Unkindness of Strangers: Violence and Homosexual Subtexts in Israel Horovitz by John Watkins and Andrew Elfenbein The Influence of Samuel Beckett on Israel Horovitz by Robert Scanlan The Place, the Thing: Israel Horovitz's Gloucester Milieu by Thomas F. Connolly Portraits of Wo(Men) in Israel Horovitz's North Shore Fish and Park Your Car in Harvard Yard by Susan C. Haedicke Machismo in Massachusetts: Israel Horovitz's Unpublished Screenplays The Deuce and Strong-Men by Ann C. Hall Israel Horovitz's Strong-Man's Weak Child/Strong-Men: From Stage Play to Screenplay by Steven H. Gale Ed Lemon: Prophet of Profit by Martin J. Jacobi Interview with Israel Horovitz by Leslie Kane Primary Bibliography Selected Secondary Bibliography