Introduction - Keeping Faith: 'It is required. You do awake your faith...' The Winter's Tale - The Irish Connection - The Mythic and the Mundane: The Transforming Power of Theatre and Process Drama - Mirror, dynamo or lens?: Drama, children and social change - From Boucicault to Beckett: From Real to Reel (1894-1920) - like a bell with many echoes: drama and opera - Index.