A volume of previously uncollected writings by Daniel Gerould from Comparative Literature, Modern Drama, PAJ, TDR, SEEP, yale/theater and other journals. It includes essays about Polish, Russian and French theatre, theories of melodrama and comedy, historical and medical simulations, Symbolist drama, erotic puppet theatre, comTdie rosse at the Grand Guignol, Witkacy's Doubles, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Mrozek, Battleship Potemkin, and other topics. Translations include Andrzej Bursa's Count Cagliostro's Animals, Henry Monnier's The Student and the Tart, and Oscar MTtOnier's Little Bugger and Meat-Ticket. --Book Jacket.