Gerald C. Wood is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Carson-Newman College. He is author of Conor McPherson:Imaging Mischief (2003) and HortonFoote and the Theater of Intimacy (1999). He is editor of Horton Foote: A Casebook (1998) and Selected One-ActPlays of Horton Foote (1989).
Introduction; Part 1 Biographical/Contextual Essays; Chapter 1 A Touch of
Bad: Why Is the Director Neil LaBute So Interested in Jerks?, John Lahr;
Chapter 2 A Modern Euripides, Mary English; Chapter 3 Jeremy Collier
Answered: Shifting Poetic Justice from the Playwright to the Audience in
the Works of Neil LaBute, Jay Oney; Part 2 Perspectives on Religion and
Morality; Chapter 4 Experiencing Others: Martin Buber and Neil LaBute's In
the Company of Men, Kip Redick, Mark Borchert; Chapter 5 Morality and
Metaphor in the Works of Neil LaBute, Tom Wilhelmus; Chapter 6 Latter-day
Capitalism: Religious and Corporate Violence in the Films and Plays of Neil
LaBute, Gerald C. Wood; Part 3 The LaBute Style; Chapter 7 Neil LaBute,
Postmodernist in the Pulpit: The Search for Truth and decency in a Sinful
World, Dean Mendell; Chapter 8 Place, Popular Culture, and Possibilism in
Selected Works of Playwright Neil LaBute, Thomas L. Bell; Chapter 9 No
Simple Misogyny: The Shape of Gender in the Works of Neil LaBute, Becky
Becker; Chapter 10 Interrogating the Real in Neil LaBute's Films, J. P.
Telotte;
