Ionesco and the Comic of absurdity / J. S. Doubrovsky -- Bald soprano and The lesson : an inquiry into play structure / R. Schechner -- Amedee : a caricatural Ionesco / J.-H. Donnard -- Ionesco ex machina / J. Guicharnaud -- Science and fiction in Ionesco's "experimental" theatre : an interpretation of The chairs / D. Mendelson -- Eugene Ionesco : the existential Oedipus / H. Dickinson -- Ionesco's L'impromtu de l'Alma : a satire of Parisian theater criticism / P. Ronge -- Utopia and after / R. N. Coe -- Eugene Ionesco and the metaphysical farce / R. C. Lamont.