Beginnings: Postmodern Tipping Points / Daniel K. Jernigan -- Ch. 1. Spatial Ambiguity and the Early Modern/Postmodern in King Lear / Jenn Stephenson -- Ch. 2. Metadrama, Authority, and the Roots of Incredulity / Bill Angus -- Ch. 3. Parody, Metatheatre, and the Postmodern Turn: A Secret History of Irish Drama / Eugene McNulty -- Ch. 4. Lost in the Dark: Performing the Postmodern Moment in Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones / Lance Norman -- Ch. 5. Landscapes of Metatheatre: Gertrude Stein's Anticipation of the Postmodern / Teresa Requena Pelegri -- Ch. 6. "Nayman" No More: Reconsidering Samuel Beckett / Matthew Paproth -- Ch. 7. Tom Stoppard's Regressive Postmodernity: Tracking the Major Plays, From Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to Indian Ink / Daniel K. Jernigan -- Ch. 8. Elfriede Jelinek: Staging a Heideggerian Postmodern Debate in Totenauberg / Christine Kiebuzinska -- Ch. 9. Staging the Audience: Peter Weiss' The Investigation / Scott Windham -- Ch. 10. Top Girls: Postmodern Imperfect / Prapassaree Thaiwutipong Kramer -- Ch. 11. "Pessimism of the Intellect-Optimism of the Will": Tony Kushner's Postmodern Aesthetic / James Fisher -- Ch. 12. Postmodern Ethics in Mark Ravenhill's Some Explicit Polaroids / Leslie A. Wade -- Ch. 13. Rise and Fall of the Lad: Joe Penhall's Early Plays / William C. Boles -- Ch. 14. Utopia in absentia: Staging Possibilities in Kirk Lynn's WAR / Margaret F. Savilonis -- Ch. 15. Beckett and the Stage Image: Toward a Poetics of Postmodern Performance / Neil Murphy.