PATRICK D. MURPHY is Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in contemporary poetry and critical theory. His book publications include, as coeditor, Essentials of the Theory of Fiction (1988), Science Fiction from China (Praeger, 1989), The Poetic Fantastic (Greenwood, 1989), and Critical Essays on American Modernism (1991), and editor, Critical Essays on Gary Snyder (1990). His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Women's Studies, Science-Fiction Studies, American Studies, Mythlore, College English, Extrapolation, and Papers on Language and Literature.

• Introduction by Patrick D. Murphy When Formula Seizes Form: Oscar Wilde's Comedies by Susan Taylor Jacobs A Task Most Difficult: Staging Yeats's Mystical Dramas at the Abbey by Frederick S. Lapisardi The Perilous Edge: Strindberg, Madness and Other Worlds by Peter Malekin Wassily Kandinsky's Stage Composition Yellow Sound: Elements of the Fantastic as Examples of the Symbolic Mode of Communication by Kent W. Hooper Ionesco and l'insolite by Elizabeth C. and Ian M. Hesson Ambiguity and the Supernatural in Cocteau's La Machine Infernale by Ralph Yarrow Beckett and the Horrific by Lance Olsen Multiplicities of Illusion in Tom Stoppard's Plays by Peter N. Chetta Leivick's The Golem and the Golem Legend by Carl Schaffer Dream on Monkey Mountain: Fantasy as Self-Perception by Robert J. Willis Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia: A Performance Gesture by Jessica Prinz The Shock of the Actual: Disrupting the Theatrical Illusion by Theodore Shank Playing at the End of the World: Postmodern Theatre by Veronica Hollinger "Infinity in a Cigar Box": The Problem of Science Fiction on the Stage by Joseph Krupnik Bibliography Index

PATRICK D. MURPHY is Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in contemporary poetry and critical theory. His book publications include, as coeditor, Essentials of the Theory of Fiction (1988), Science Fiction from China (Praeger, 1989), The Poetic Fantastic (Greenwood, 1989), and Critical Essays on American Modernism (1991), and editor, Critical Essays on Gary Snyder (1990). His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Women's Studies, Science-Fiction Studies, American Studies, Mythlore, College English, Extrapolation, and Papers on Language and Literature.

• Introduction by Patrick D. Murphy When Formula Seizes Form: Oscar Wilde's Comedies by Susan Taylor Jacobs A Task Most Difficult: Staging Yeats's Mystical Dramas at the Abbey by Frederick S. Lapisardi The Perilous Edge: Strindberg, Madness and Other Worlds by Peter Malekin Wassily Kandinsky's Stage Composition Yellow Sound: Elements of the Fantastic as Examples of the Symbolic Mode of Communication by Kent W. Hooper Ionesco and l'insolite by Elizabeth C. and Ian M. Hesson Ambiguity and the Supernatural in Cocteau's La Machine Infernale by Ralph Yarrow Beckett and the Horrific by Lance Olsen Multiplicities of Illusion in Tom Stoppard's Plays by Peter N. Chetta Leivick's The Golem and the Golem Legend by Carl Schaffer Dream on Monkey Mountain: Fantasy as Self-Perception by Robert J. Willis Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia: A Performance Gesture by Jessica Prinz The Shock of the Actual: Disrupting the Theatrical Illusion by Theodore Shank Playing at the End of the World: Postmodern Theatre by Veronica Hollinger "Infinity in a Cigar Box": The Problem of Science Fiction on the Stage by Joseph Krupnik Bibliography Index

PATRICK D. MURPHY is Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in contemporary poetry and critical theory. His book publications include, as coeditor, Essentials of the Theory of Fiction (1988), Science Fiction from China (Praeger, 1989), The Poetic Fantastic (Greenwood, 1989), and Critical Essays on American Modernism (1991), and editor, Critical Essays on Gary Snyder (1990). His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Women's Studies, Science-Fiction Studies, American Studies, Mythlore, College English, Extrapolation, and Papers on Language and Literature.

• Introduction by Patrick D. Murphy When Formula Seizes Form: Oscar Wilde's Comedies by Susan Taylor Jacobs A Task Most Difficult: Staging Yeats's Mystical Dramas at the Abbey by Frederick S. Lapisardi The Perilous Edge: Strindberg, Madness and Other Worlds by Peter Malekin Wassily Kandinsky's Stage Composition Yellow Sound: Elements of the Fantastic as Examples of the Symbolic Mode of Communication by Kent W. Hooper Ionesco and l'insolite by Elizabeth C. and Ian M. Hesson Ambiguity and the Supernatural in Cocteau's La Machine Infernale by Ralph Yarrow Beckett and the Horrific by Lance Olsen Multiplicities of Illusion in Tom Stoppard's Plays by Peter N. Chetta Leivick's The Golem and the Golem Legend by Carl Schaffer Dream on Monkey Mountain: Fantasy as Self-Perception by Robert J. Willis Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia: A Performance Gesture by Jessica Prinz The Shock of the Actual: Disrupting the Theatrical Illusion by Theodore Shank Playing at the End of the World: Postmodern Theatre by Veronica Hollinger "Infinity in a Cigar Box": The Problem of Science Fiction on the Stage by Joseph Krupnik Bibliography Index