Prologue 5
1. Death Consciousness in William Shakespeare's Hamlet 11
2. William Shakespeare's Richard II: A Smashed Mirror for the Renaissance Self-Reflection 39
3. Victor Turner's Liminality in Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck 57
4. Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard vs. John Gay's The Beggar's Opera and R. B. Sheridan's The School for Scandal: The Balance between Illusion and Reality 69
5. Antonin Artaud's Theater of Cruelty: The Poetry of Space and Gesture in Some Modern Plays―Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder, August Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata, Friedrich D？rrenmatt's The Visit, Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs, and August Strindberg's A Dream Play 87
6. Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and The Iceman Cometh: Plays about the Human Conditions 125
7. From the Self-Enclosing Illusion to the Communicative Human Contact in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 149
Epilogue 175
Works Cited 177
Index 185
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