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2. Richard Schechner, Performance Studies: An Introduction (New York: Routledge, 2002), 28.
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4. John Lahr, Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton (New York: Vintage, 1987), 278.
5. Kerry Powell, Oscar Wilde and the Theatre of the 1890s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 109.