Conté: Introduction / Ric Knowles -- Modern drama/Modernity's drama / Elin Diamond -- Aesthetic prejudice in modern drama / Michael J. Sidnell -- Why modern plays are not culture : disciplinary blind spots / Shannon Jackson -- Quo Vadis? Theatre studies at the crossroads / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Physiologies of the modern : Zola, experimental medicine, and the naturalist stage / Stanton B. Garner, Jr. -- Making sense of sensation : enlightenment, embodiment, and the end(s) of modern drama / Loren Kruger -- Luminous writing, embodiment, and modern drama : Mme. Blavatsky and Bertolt Brecht / Sue-Ellen Case -- The haunted houses of modernity / David Savran -- Hauntings : anxiety, technology, and gender in Peter Pan / Ann Wilson -- Bodies, revolutions, and magic : cultural nationalism and racial fetishism / Josephine Lee -- Modernism and genocide : citing minstrelsy in postcolonial agitprop / Alan Filewod -- August Wilson, doubling, madness, and modern African-American drama / Harry J. Elam, Jr.