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Absurd Person Singular,  Artist Descending a Staircase,  Accidental Death of an Anarchist, ,  Arturo Ui, –,  After the Fall, ,  As Brother is to Brother (Rabe), see Sticks and Bones Akalitis, Joanne,  Ascent of Man, The, – Albee, Edward, vii–viii, , , , , ,  Atlantic City,  Guare and,  Ayckbourn, Alan,  Norman and,  Rabe and, ,  Bacchae, The,  Vogel and, , , , , ,  Backes, Nancy, ,  Wilson and,  Bakhtin, Mikhail, , –,  Alfred, William,  Bal (Nelson), , , ,  All God’s Chillun,  Bald Prima Donna, The,  All My Sons, , ,  Balm in Gilead (Wilson), –,  Allen, Annulla, , , ,  Baltimore Waltz, The (Vogel), , , , Allen, Woody,  –, , –,  Altman, Robert,  Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones), , , ,  American Buffalo, , , –,  Barnett, Gene A.,  American Comedy, An (Nelson), , – Barr-Albee-Wilder workshop,  American Daughter, An (Wasserstein), , – Barry, Philip, , ,  American Dream, The, , , , ,  Bartholomew Fair,  And Baby Makes Seven (Vogel), , , –, Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, T he (Rabe), , – , –, , , ,  Anderson, Robert,  Bauer, Wolfgang, –, , , ,  André  Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de,  André, John, – Beckett, Samuel, –, ,  Angels Fall (Wilson), , –,  Howe and, –, , ,  (Kushner), viii, , , Kushner and, ,  –, –, –, ,  Norman and, ,  Animal Crackers,  Rabe and, ,  Anna Christie,  Vogel and,  Anne Frank,  Wilson and, ,  Annulla, An Autobiography (Mann), , –, Behan, Brendan,  , , , , ,  Bellow, Saul, , ,  Any Woman Can’t (Wasserstein),  Benjamin, Walter, , , , , –, , Apocalypse Now ,   Approaching Zanzibar (Howe), , –, –, , Bernard, Kenneth, – ,  Berrigan, Daniel,  Aristotle,  Bersani, Leo,  Arnold, Benedict, – Betsko, Kathleen, ix of Dining, The (Howe), , –, ,  Between East and West (Nelson), , – Artaud, Antonin, , , , , ,  Bierce, Ambrose,  

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Bigsby, Christopher,  Guare and, , , , , ,  Birth and Afterbirth (Howe), , –,  Nelson and, –,  Black Comedy,  Vogel and, ,  Bleckner, Jeff,  Wasserstein and, ,  Blue Highways,  Wilson and, , , ,  ‘Blue Hotel, The’,  Cherry Orchard, The, , , ,  Bobbio, Norberto,  Chorus of Disapproval, A,  Bond, Edward, , , ,  Churchill, Caryl, , , , – Guare and,  Cino, Joe, , , ,  Kushner and, , , – Cino, Caffè, ,  Nelson and, ,  Circle Repertory Company, ,  Bones of Birds, The (Rabe),  Circus Valentine (Norman), – Bosoms and Neglect (Guare), – Closing Time (Howe),  Boyfriend, The,  Coastal Disturbances (Howe), , , –, , Boyle, Tony,   Bread and Puppet Theatre,  Collins, Wilkie,  Brecht, Bertolt, , , , ,  Columbus and the Discovery of Japan (Nelson), , Guare and,  –,  Kushner and, , –, , , , , , ‘Come Back When You Grow Up’,  , ,  Commune,  Mann and, , –,  Congdon, Constance, viii Nelson and, , , , – Conjuring an Event (Nelson), , – Vogel and, – Connection, The, , , , ,  Breuer, Lee,  Control,  ‘Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, The’,  Coppola, Francis Ford,  Bridges (Rabe),  Corneille, Pierre,  Bright Room Called Day, A (Kushner), viii, , Coward, Noel, ,  –, , ,  Crane, Stephen,  Broadway, , , ,  Crimes of the Heart,  Bronowski, Jacob, – Crystals, the,  Brontosaurus (Wilson), – Curse of the Starving Classes, The,  Brook, Peter, , , – Browne, Thomas,  Dance of Death, The, ,  Brustein, Robert,  Davis, R.G., –,  Bryer, Jackson R., ix,  Day, Doris,  Bryne, Barbara,  Day for Surprises, A (Guare), – Bullfinch’s Mythology (Guare), ,  Days Ahead (Wilson),  Burgoyne, John,  Days of the Commune, The,  Burke, Kenneth,  de Kooning, Willem,  Burn This (Wilson), –,  de Mille, Agnes,  Bush, George, ,  Dead End,  , , , , –,  Café La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, Deerhunter, The,  – DeLillo, Don, , ,  Caffè Cino, , , , , ,  Deliverance  Cage, John,  Desdemona (Vogel), , , , , –, Cain, James M.,  ,  Caligula,  Desire Under the Elms,  Camille,  Dialogic Imagination, The,  Camino Real, , , ,  Did You Write My Name in the Snow (Guare),  Campiello, Il,  Diderot, Denis, ,  Camus, Albert, , ,  Dionysus in ,  Caretaker, The, ,  Disasters of War,  Chaikin, Joseph,  Discourse on Vietnam, ,  Chekhov, Anton, ,  Disney, Walt, , 

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Dolan, Jill,  Front Page,  Doll’s House, The,  Fugard, Athol,  Dos Passos, John,  Funicello, Ralph,  ‘Dream Baby’,  Funny House of the Negro, The,  Dreiser, Theodore, ,  Duck Variations, , ,  Galileo,  Dunlap, William,  Gardenia (Guare), –, – Durang, Christopher, viii, , ,  Gassner, John,  Dürrenmatt, Friedrich,  Gelber, Jack, , , , ,  Dutchman,  Gelman, Alexander,  General from America, The (Nelson), vii, , Ederle, Gertrude,  – Edmond,  Genet, Jean, , , ,  Eisenhower, Dwight David,  Getting Out (Norman), , , –,  Eliot, George,  Gilman, Richard,  Emerson, Ralph Waldo,  Gingham Dog, The (Wilson), – Epstein, Robert,  Glaspell, Susan, viii, , , ,  ,  Glass Menagerie, The, , , , , , , Erdman, Nikolai,  , , ,  Ethan Frome (Nelson),  Gnädige Fräulein,  Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference,  God’s Favorite,  Eustis, Oskar,  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,  Ewell, Tom,  Golden Cherub, The (Guare),  Execution of Justice (Mann), –,  Goldoni, Carlo,  Gone With the Wind,  Family Continues, The (Wilson),  Good Woman of Setzuan, The, ,  Fantasia,  Goodnight Children Everywhere (Nelson), – Farquhar, George,  Goose and Tomtom (Rabe), ,  Faulkner, William, , , ,  Goya, Francisco de,  Norman and,  Grant, Cary,  Vogel and, , ,  Grapes of Wrath, The,  Wilson and, ,  Gray, Spalding,  Faust,  Great Gatsby, The, ,  Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, – Great God Brown, The,  Federal Theatre,  Great Nebula in Orion, The, (Wilson),  Fefu and Her Friends,  Greensboro (Mann), –,  Feminist Spectator as Critic, The,  Grotowski, Jerzy,  Feydeau, Georges, , , ,  Guare, John, viii, –, –, , , , , –, Fierstein, Harvey,  –, ,  th of July (Wilson), , –,  Kushner and,  Film und Frau, – Bosoms and Neglect, – Fitzgerald, F. Scott, , , ,  Bullfinch’s Mythology, ,  Flanagan, Neil,  A Day for Surprises, – Flea in Her Ear, A,  Did You Write My Name in the Snow,  Fo, Dario, , ,  Four Baboons Adoring the Sun, – Ford, Henry,  Gardenia, –, – Ford, Richard,  The Golden Cherub,  Foreman, Richard, ,  The House of Blue Leaves, viii, , , , –,  Fornes, Maria Irene, viii, , ,  Landscape of the Body, –,  Kushner and,  The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year, , ,  Vogel and, , ,  Lydie Breeze, viii, , , –, , , , –, Forrest, Edwin,  – Four Baboons Adoring the Sun (Guare), – Marco Polo Sings a Solo, , – Frank, Anne, – Muzeeka, – Freud, Sigmund, – Six Degrees of Separation, viii, , –, 

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Guare, John (cont.) Birth and Afterbirth, , –,  Something I’ll Tell You Tuesday , ,  Closing Time,  Theatre Girl,  Coastal Disturbances, , , –, ,  The Thirties Girl,  Museum, , –, , ,  The Toadstool Boy,  The Nest, –,  Women and Water, viii, , , , – One Shoe Off, , – Guernica,  Painting Churches, , , –, , ,  Gurney, A. R., viii Pride’s Crossing, – Guys and Dolls, ,  Howe, William,  Hudson, Rock,  Hall, Peter, ,  Hughie, , ,  Hamlet, ,  Hunt, Linda,  Hansberry, Lorraine,  Hurlyburly (Rabe), , , , , –, Hapgood,  , , ,  Happy Birthday, Montpelier Pizz-zazz Hydriotaphia,  (Wasserstein),  Hydriotaphia or The Death of Dr Browne Hare, David,  (Kushner), – Harris, Jed,  Hart, Moss, ,  Ibsen, Henrik, , ,  Harvey,  Guare and,  Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First  Years Vogel and, , ,  (Mann), – Wilson and, , , ,  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, ,  Iceman Cometh, The, , , , ,  Heat and Light Company,  Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye (Wilson),  Hecht, Ben,  Illuminations, –,  Hedda Gabler,  Illusion, The,  Heidi Chronicles, The (Wasserstein), , , Importance of Being Earnest, The,  , –, , , , ,  In the Boom Boom Room (Rabe), – Heisenberg, Werner,  In Circles,  Heller, Joseph, ,  In the Jungle of Cities, , – Hellman, Lillian, , , ,  Independence Day,  Hellzapoppin’, ,  Inge, William, ,  Helms, Jesse,  Inheritors, The,  Hemingway, Ernest, , , ,  Invention of Love, The,  Henley, Beth, ,  Ionesco, Eugene, ,  Hepburn, Katharine,  Guare and,  Hitler, Adolf, , , – Howe and, ,  Hoffman, Abbie,  Rabe and,  Holdup, The (Norman), , – Wilson and,  Home Free (Wilson), ,  Iphigenia at Aulis,  Hopkins, Gerard Manley, – Irving, Washington, , ,  Hostage, The,  Isn’t It Romantic (Wasserstein), , , – Hot ‘N’ Throbbing (Vogel), , –,  Hot l Baltimore, The (Wilson), , –, , Jackson, Janet,  ,  Jackson, Michael,  House of Blue Leaves, The (Guare), viii, , , , James, Henry, ,  –,  J.B.,  House of Games, The  Jeremiah,  How I Learned to Drive (Vogel), , , , Johnson, Harold O.,  –, , , – Jones, David,  Howe, Tina, viii, –, , , –, , –, Jones, LeRoi (Amiri Baraka), , , ,  –, , ,  Jonson, Ben,  Approaching Zanzibar, , –, –, , , Jory, Jon, –  Joyce, James,  The Art of Dining, , –, ,  Judson Poets’ Theatre, 

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Julius Caesar,  Little, Stuart W., – Jungle Coup (Nelson),  Little Foxes, The, ,  ‘Little Surfer Girl’,  Kaufman, George S., , ,  Living Newspaper,  Kellman, Barnett, ,  Living Theatre, the, , , , , ,  Kennedy, Adrienne, viii, , , , ,  Logan, Joshua,  Kennedy, John F.,  Lolita, , ,  Kill Viet Cong,  London Cuckold, The,  Killing of Yablonski, The (Nelson), ,  London, Jack,  King, Carole,  Long Day’s Journey into Night,  Kingsley, Sidney,  Look Back in Anger,  Kintz, Linda, – Loveliest Afternoon of the Year, The (Guare), , , Kleb, William,   Klee, Paul, – Loving (Norman), – Koenig, Rachel, ix Lowell, Robert,  Kolin, Philip C., ix,  Ludlam, Charles, –, ,  Kroll, Jack,  Ludlow Fair (Wilson),  Kullman, Colby H., ix Lydie Breeze (Guare), viii, , , –, , , , Kunitz, Stanley,  –, – Kuoma,  Lyne, Adrian,  Kushner, Tony, viii, –, , –, –, –, , –, , , ,  Mabou Mines,  Rabe and,  MacArthur, Charles,  Angels in America, viii, , , –, –, Macbird,  –, ,  McNally, Terrence, viii, ,  A Bright Room Called Day, viii, , –, Macready, William Charles,  , ,  Madness of Lady Bright, The (Wilson), , Hydriotaphia or The Death of Dr Browne, –,  – Mailer, Norman,  Millennium Approaches, see Angels in America Malkovich, John, ,  Perestroika, see Angels in America Mamet, David, , , , , , , , Slavs! (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems ,  of Virtue and Happiness), – Guare and,  Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Mann and, ,  Virtue and Happiness, , , , , –, Rabe and, , –,   Vogel and, , , , , ,  Wilson and, ,  La Mama, Café, – Mammary Plays (Vogel), see How I Learned to Lahr, Bert,  Drive and The Mineola Twins Lamorisse, Albert,  Mandelstam, Osip,  Landscape of the Body (Guare), –,  Mann, Arthur,  Lanzmann, Claude,  Mann, Emily, –, –, ,  Lasch, Christopher,  Annulla, An Autobiography, , –, , Lear , – , , , ,  Lehrer, Tom,  Execution of Justice, –,  Lemon Sky (Wilson), –, ,  Greensboro, –,  Lerner, Harry H.,  Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First  Lessing, Doris, – Years – Lesson, The,  Still Life, –,  Levi, Primo,  Mann, Thomas,  Lewis, Sinclair,  Mao II,  Lie of the Mind, A,  Marat/Sade  Light in August, ,  Marco Polo Sings a Solo (Guare), , – Light Shining in Buckinghamshire,  Margulies, Donald, viii Linney, Romulus, viii Marriage of Figaro, The, , 

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One Shoe Off (Howe), , – The Bones of Birds,  O’Neill, Eugene, , , , , , , Bridges,  ,  Goose and Tomtom , ,  Guare and, ,  Hurlyburly, , , , , –, , Howe and,  , ,  Kushner and,  In the Boom Boom Room, – Norman and,  The Orphan, , , – Rabe and,  A Question of Mercy, – Wilson and, , , , , , ,  Sticks and Bones, , , –, , –, O’Neill Centre,  ,  Open Theatre, , – , , , –,  Oresteia,  Those the River Keeps, – Orphan, The (Rabe), , , – Rabelais and His World, ,  Orpheus Descending,  Reagan, Ronald, , , , –, , , Orton, Joe, , , –,  –, ,  Osborne, John,  Balloon, The,  Othello, , , – Red Devil Battery Sign, The,  Our Town, , , , – Redwood Curtain (Wilson), – Owens, Rochelle, viii,  Reflections,  Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, The, –,  Painting Churches (Howe), , , –, , , Return of Pinocchio, The (Nelson), , –  Rice, Elmer,  Papp, Joe, , , , – Rich, Frank,  Paradise Now, ,  Rilke, Rainer Maria,  Paris, Texas, ,  Rimers of Eldritch, The (Wilson), , –,  Pawn Ticket ,  Rip Van Winkle, , ,  Perestroika (Kushner), see Angels in America Rip Van Winkle or ‘The Works’(Nelson), , Performance Group, the, , – –, ,  Philadelphia Story, The,  Roots in Water (Nelson), – Picasso, Pablo,  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,  Pinter, Harold, , ,  Roth, Philip, ,  Guare and,  Royal Hunt of the Sun,  Rabe and, , ,  Royal Shakespeare Company, , ,  Vogel and,  Ryskind, Morrie,  Pirandello, Luigi, ,  Playing in the Dark,  St Joan of the Stockyards,  Plough and the Stars, The,  San Francisco Mime Troupe, , – Plutarch,  Sandcastle, The (Wilson),  Poe, Edgar Allen,  Sarah and Abraham (Norman), – Postman Always Rings Twice, The,  Saroyan, William,  Pride’s Crossing (Howe), – Saunders, James,  Principia Scriptoriae (Nelson), , , –, Saved, ,   Savran, David, ix, ,  Proust, Marcel, ,  Scarlet Letter, The, ,  Provincetown Players,  Schechner, Richard,  Public Theatre, ,  Schmeichen, Richard,  Pynchon, Thomas,  Seagull, The,  Sensibility and Sense (Nelson), – Question of Mercy, A (Rabe), – Serenading Louie (Wilson), – Serpent, The,  Rabe, David, viii, , –, ,  Seven Blow Jobs,  Wilson and, ,  : Theatre Company,  As Brother is to Brother, see Sticks and Bones Sexual Perversity in Chicago, , –, , The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, , ,  –, , , ,  Shaffer, Peter, , 

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Shakespeare, William Strictly Dishonourable and Other Lost American Plays, Brook and,   Mann and,  Strindberg, August, , ,  Nelson and, , , ,  Stuart, Ellen,  Vogel and, , – Styron, William,  Shakespeare the Sadist, –, , , ,  Suicide, The,  Shange, Ntozake,  Summer and Smoke,  Shapiro, Mel, ,  Synge, John Millingron,  Shaw, George Bernard,  Szentgyorgi, Tom,  Shawl, The,  Shawn, Wallace, viii Taccone, Anthony,  Shepard, Sam, , , , , , , , , Tale Told, A(Wilson), see Talley and Son  Talley and Son (Wilson), , , , , Nelson and, ,  – Rabe and, ,  Talley’s Folly (Wilson), , –, , , Vogel and, , ,  ,  Wilson and, ,  Talmer, Jerry,  Shifting Point, The, , , – Tea and Sympathy, ,  Shklovsky, Victor,  Tempest, T he,  Shoah,  Terry, Megan, viii, ,  Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, ,  Theatre Girl (Guare),  Silence of the Lambs, The,  Theatre and Its Double, The,  Simon, Neil, ,  Theses on the Philosophy of History, ,  Simpson, Nicole, ,  Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue Sisters Rosensweig, The (Wasserstein), , and Happiness (Kushner), , , , , –, , – –,  Six Degrees of Separation (Guare), viii, , –,  Third and Oak: The Laundromat (Norman), Skin of Our Teeth, T he,  –,  Slavs! (Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Third and Oak: The Pool Hall (Norman), , Virtue and Happiness) (Kushner), – , – Smith, Joseph,  Third Man, The,  Smith, Molly,  Thirties Girl, The (Guare),  ‘Soldier’s Home’,  ‘This Girl Is a Woman Now’,  Some Americans Abroad (Nelson), , –, This Is the Rill Speaking(Wilson), –  Thoreau, Henry David,  Something I’ll Tell You Tuesday (Guare), ,  Those the River Keeps (Rabe), – Sophie’s Choice,  P Productions,  ‘Soul of Man Under Socialism, The’,  Three Sisters, –,  Sound and the Fury, The, ,  Threepenny Opera, The, ,  Spector, Phil,  Thriller,  Spielberg, Steven,  Thymus Vulgaris (Wilson), – Stanislavsky, Constantin, ,  Timequake, –,  Star Wars,  Times of Harvey Milk, The,  Starkweather, David,  To Kill a Mockingbird ,  Stein, Gertrude,  Toadstool Boy, T he(Guare),  Steinbeck, John, ,  Tobacco Road,  Steiner, George, ,  Tocqueville, Alexis de, ,  Sticks and Bones (Rabe), , , –, , Tom Jones,  –, ,  Tom Sawyer,  Still Life (Mann), –,  Tooth of Crime, T he,  Still Lives,  Traveler in the Dark (Norman), – Stoppard, Tom, , , , ,  Trelawny of the Wells,  Streamers (Rabe), , , –,  Trial of the Catonsville Nine ,  Street Scene,  Trial of Yablonski, T he (Nelson),  Streetcar Named Desire, A, , , ,  Trifles , 

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Tristram Shandy,  , , , , –, Trotsky, Leon, ,  , , , ,  Trudy Blue (Norman), – Isn’t It Romantic, , , – True West,  The Sisters Rosensweig, , –, , Twain, Mark,  – Two Gentlemen of Verona, The,  Uncommon Women and Others, , , –, Two Shakespearean Actors (Nelson), , , , –, ,  –, ,  When Dinah Shore Ruled the Earth,  Waste Land, The,  Uncommon Women and Others (Wasserstein), , Weber, Carl,  , –, , –, ,  Wedding, The,  Underpainter, The,  Weiss, Peter, , ,  Understanding Brecht, ,  Wellman, Mac,  Unfinished Play (Wilson),  Wenders, Wim,  ‘Upturned Utopia, The’,  Wesker, Arnold,  Urn-Burial,  West, Mae, – Urquhart, Jane,  West, Nathanael,  US, , – When Dinah Shore Ruled the Earth (Wasserstein/Durang),  Vidal, Gore, ,  ‘Whiffenpoof Song, The’,  Vienna Notes, The (Nelson), , – White, Dan, –, ,  Viet Rock,  Whitman, Walt, , , ,  View from the Bridge, A,  Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, , , , Visit, The,   Vogel, Paula, viii, ix, , –, –, Wilde, Oscar, , ,  –, , , ,  Wilder, Thornton And Baby Makes Seven, , , –, Howe and,  – Wilson and, , , , , , – The Baltimore Waltz, , , , –, Williams, Raymond,  , –,  Williams, Tennessee, viii, , , , , , Desdemona, , , , , –, , , ,   Guare and, , ,  Hot ‘N’ Throbbing, , –,  Howe and, ,  How I Learned to Drive, , , , –, Kushner and, , ,  , , – Norman and,  Mammary Plays, see How I Learned to Drive and Rabe and,  The Mineola Twins Vogel and, ,  Meg,  Wilson and, , , , , , , , The Mineola Twins, , , – , , , , , , , ,  The Oldest Profession, , , –, – Wilson, August, viii Vonnegut, Kurt, , , –,  Wilson, Lanford, viii, , , –, , –, , –, , , , – Waiting for Godot, , , , , , , Vogel and,  ,  Angels Fall, , –,  ‘Walking Backwards into the Future’,  Balm in Gilead, –,  Walking in the Shade, – Brontosaurus, – Walton, Tony,  Burn This, –,  Wandering (Wilson),  Days Ahead,  Washington, George, ,  The Family Continues,  Washington Square Players,  th of July, , –,  Wasserstein, Wendy, viii, , , –, , The Gingham Dog, – , , , –,  The Great Nebula in Orion,  An American Daughter, , – Home Free, ,  Any Woman Can’t,  The Hot l Baltimore, , –, , , Happy Birthday, Montpelier Pizz-zazz,  

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Wilson, Lanford (cont.) Wolfe, Tom,  Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye,  Women and Water (Guare), viii, , , , – Lemon Sky, –, ,  Woolf, Virginia, , , , – Ludlow Fair,  Wooster Group, the, ,  The Madness of Lady Bright, , –,  World at War, The,  The Mound Builders, –, ,  World Beat,  Redwood Curtain, – Wright, Richard,  The Rimers of Eldritch, , –,  Wurtzel, Elizabeth,  The Sandcastle,  Wuthering Heights,  Serenading Louie, – Wycherley, William,  A Tale Told, see Talley and Son Talley and Son, , , , , – Yablonski, Jock,  Talley’s Folly, , –, , , ,  Yeats, William Butler, , ,  This Is the Rill Speaking, – You May Go Home Again,  Thymus Vulgaris, – ‘You’re Sixteen’,  Unfinished Play,  Wandering,  Zinman, Toby Silverman,  Wilson, Robert,  Zoo Story, The, , , ,  Wisteria Tree, T he 

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