Word Plays: Collected Writings on Politics and Culture (Hardcover)

Introduction

I Literary Word Plays

1 The Contemporary American Theater

2 Arab Spring Forward, Fall Back

3 Theater and the University: Marriage or Misalliance

4 How to Love Your Country

5 Shakespeare's Absent Queen

6 School for Crime

7 Dynasties

II Dramatic Word Plays

1 Broken News

2 Poker Face

3 Airport Hell

4 Sex for a Change

5 Kosher Kop

6 Allies in Blunderland

7 The Comfort Zone

8 Gun Play

9 The Press Assess the Gettysburg Address

10 Moses and the Deep Red Sea

III Commendatory Word Plays

1 Wendy Wasserstein

2 Austin Pendleton

3 Justin Kaplan

4 Jonathan Miller

5 Blushing

6 Lewis Black

7 Mark Rylance

8 Todd London

9 Robert Kiley

Coda

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