Barnestorm: The Plays of Peter Barnes Book

	General Editor's Preface
	Preface
I	The Barnes Controversy	3
II	Biography and Survey	11
III	The Major Plays	21
	The Ruling Class	21
	Leonardo's Last Supper	28
	Noonday Demons	32
	The Bewitched	34
	Laughter!	40
	Red Noses	47
	Sunsets and Glories	55
	Heaven's Blessings	64
	Eggs in Gravy	74
	Their Theatrical Style	83
IV	Early Works	117
	The Man with a Feather in His Hat	117
	The Time of the Barracudas	120
	Sclerosis	124
	Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie (i)	127
	Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie (ii)	132
	Foreshadowing and Progress	136
V	Miniatures and More	141
	Barnes' People	141
	Confessions of a Primary Terrestrial Mental Receiver and Communicator: NUM III Mark I, The Jumping Mimuses of Byzantium, The Theory and Practice of Belly-Dancing, The End of the World - and After, Yesterday's News, Glory, Rosa
	Barnes' People II	146
	Acting Exercise, Moondog Rogan and the Mighty Hamster, Silver Bridges, Worms, The Right Time and Place, It's Cold, Wanderer, It's Cold, Lament for Armenians and Grey Viruses
	Revolutionary Witness	155
	The Patriot, The Butcher, The Preacher, The Amazon
	The Spirit of Man	162
	A Hand Witch of the Second Stage, From Sleep and Shadow, The Night of the Sinhat Torah
	The Able Disabled	168
	Nobody Here But Us Chickens, More Than a Touch of Zen, Not As Bad As They Seem
	Barnes' People III	175
	After the Funeral, The Peace of Westphalia, The Real Long John Silver, The Heirs of Diogenes, Sisters, Dancing, The Perfect Pair, The Three Visions
	More Barnes' People	182
	Madame Zenobia, Slaughterman, The Road to Strome, Billy and Me, Losing Myself, Houdini's Heir, A True-Born Englishman, No End to Dreaming
	Bye Bye Columbus	188
	The Trial of Socrates	196
VI	Editings and Adaptations	205
	The Roles of Editor and Adapter	205
	Seventeenth-Century Editings	208
	The Alchemist, Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, The Silent Woman, The Magnetic Lady, The Soldier's Fortune, The Atheist, The Dutch Courtesan, A Mad World, My Masters, A Trick to Catch the Old One
	Jacobean Adaptations	214
	Antonio	215
	The Devil is an Ass	220
	The Old Law	228
	Eastward Ho!	234
	Adaptations from Foreign Languages	241
	A Eulogy of Baldness, The Two Hangmen: Brecht and Wedekind, Tango at the End of Winter	241
	Lulu	246
	The Singer	251
	Don Juan and Faust	254
	The Primrose Path	259
	Woman of Paris	263
	Scenes from a Marriage	265
	The Purging	267
	Actors	271
	Common Features with His Original Plays	284
VII	Turning on a Sixpence	289
	Notes	293
	Bibliography	305
	Index	309