TRI volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Front matter THEATRE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL VOLUME 18 NUMBER 2 SUMMER 1993 Oxford University Press in Association with the International Federation for Theatre Research https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300017223 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:07:09, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300017223 https://www.cambridge.org/core NOTES TO CONTRIBUTORS 1. Contributions should be in English. Two copies of all manuscripts should be sent to the Editor, Department of Theatre Studies, Univer- sity of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QF, Scotland. 2. Articles should not exceed 4000 words and must be accompanied by an abstract of approximately 200 words which should be a succinct condensation of the paper. 3. Manuscripts should be typed double-spaced with wide margins. 4. 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Note to North American Publishers Please send your review copies directly to Professor Gordon Armstrong, Department of Theatre, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881-0820. https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300017223 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:07:09, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300017223 https://www.cambridge.org/core THEATRE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL Volume 18 Number 2 Contents ARTICLES ANDREW GURR, The Chimera of Amalgamation 85 F. W. J. HEMMINGS, After the Last Bow: The Fate of Superannuated Actors in Nineteenth-Century France 94 ELI ROZIK, The Functions of Language in the Theatre 104 MICHAEL QUINN, Havel's Actors 115 LEANORE LIEBLEIN, 'LesGrecs' aia Francaise 123 REVIEWS DAVID IAN RABEY, A Review of Playtexts Published in Britain, 1991-2 138 JEAN I. MARSDEN, ed., The Appropriation of Shakespeare: Post-Renaissance Reconstructions of the Works and the Myth (Robert G. Egan) 143 JUDD D. HUBERT, Metatheatre: The Example of Shakespeare (Daniel J. Watermeier) 144 M. M. MAHOOD, Bit Parts in Shakespeare's Plays (Nigel Warrington) 144 ALEXANDRA GLANZ, (ed. by Harald Zielske), Alessandro Galli-Bibiena (1686-1748), Inventore della Scene und Premier Architecteur am kurpfdlzischen Hofin Mannheim (Michael Patterson) 145 DONALD PERRET, Old Comedy in the French Renaissance (1576-1620) (W. D. Howarth) 146 JOHN RUDLIN & NORMAN H. PAUL, eds., Copeau: Texts on Theatre (Judith G. Miller) 146 ROBERT HARVARD, ed., Lorca: Poet and Playwright. Essays in Honour of J. M. Aguirre (Victor Dixon) 147 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300017223 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:07:09, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300017223 https://www.cambridge.org/core PIA KLEBER & COLIN VISSER, eds., Re-interpreting Brecht: His Influence on Contemporary Drama and Film (Christopher McCullough) 148 RALPH YARROW, ed., European Theatre 1960-1990 (David Bradby) 148 SUSAN CARLSON, Women and Comedy: Remitting the British Theatrical Tradition (Alan Hughes) 149 SUE-ELLEN CASE, ed., Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre (Stacy Wolf) 150 MIRA FELNER, Free to Act: An Integrated Approach to Acting (Stephen M. Archer) 150 ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE, JOSEPHINE RILEY & MICHAEL GISSENWEHRER, eds., The Dramatic Touch of Difference: Theatre Own and Foreign (Brian Singleton) 151 IRVING WARDLE, Theatre Criticism (Michael Mangan) 152 RAYMONDE TEMKINE, Le Theatre en 1 'Etat (Georges Baal) 153 MICHEL CORVIN, ed., Dictionnaire encyclopedique du theatre (Martin Banham) 154 MURRAY COX, ed., Shakespeare Comes to Broadmoor: The Actors Are Come Hither. The Performance of Tragedy in a Secure Psychiatric Setting (Ditty Dokter) 154 PRESENTATION DES ARTICLES 15 6 BOOKS RECEIVED 158 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300017223 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:07:09, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300017223 https://www.cambridge.org/core EDITOR CLAUDE SCHUMACHER, Reader in Theatre Studies, University of Glasgow ASSISTANT EDITORS: DAVID WALKER, Professor of French, University of Keele & ALASDAIR CAMERON; Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies, University of Glasgow REVIEW EDITORS: Brian Singleton, Lecturer in Theatre Studies, Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity- College, DUBLIN 2, Eire & USA: Gordon Armstrong, Professor of Theatre, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881-0820 EDITORIAL BOARD Glynne Wickham, Emeritus Professor of Drama, University of Bristol (Chairman) Michael Anderson, Professor of Drama, University of Kent, Canterbury Georges Baal, Directeur de Recherches, C.N.R.S., Paris Jack Reading, Society for Theatre Research, London, UK. Kenneth R. Richards, Professor of Drama, Victoria Univer- sity of Manchester, UK Robert K. Sarlos, Professor Emeritus, Department of Dramatic Art, Davis, California Jacques Scherer, Professor, Institut d'Etudes Theatrales, Universite de Paris III, France Zbigniew Wilski, Professor, Instytut Sztuki PAN, Warsaw, Poland David Whitton, Department of French, Lancaster University Theatre Research International is published by Oxford University Press for the International Federation for Theatre Research/Federation Internationale pour la Recherche Theatrale. The Journal covers the historical, critical, and theoretical study of documentation of drama, conceived as the art of the theatre and publishes original articles on performance, acting and production techniques, theatre architecture, and actors' social conditions. Contributions appear only in English, but articles are provided with resumes in French. 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