Splitting the Difference: Performance and Its Double in American Culture

Associate Professor in the English department at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Stages of Terror: Terrorism, Ideology, and Coercion as Theatre History (Indiana University Press, 1991). He has had articles published in Theatre Journal, Comparative Drama, Modern Drama, and several other publications and collections. He is currently completing Acting in Seemly Fashion, a book on American theatre and theatricality, of which this article is part