Introduction: the poetics of Dario Fo / Joseph Farrell and Antonio Scuderi -- An actor's theater / Walter Valeri -- The rhythms of resurrection: onstage with Fo / Ron Jenkins -- Updating antiquity / Antonio Scuderi -- Mistero buffo: negating textual certainty, the individual, and time / Costantino Maeder -- Fo and Ruzzante: debts and obligations / Joseph Farrell -- "The moon is a light bulb" and other stories: Fo, the songwriter / Tony Mitchell -- Dario Fo's "Bourgeois period": carnival and criticism / Bent Holm -- Morte accidentale in English / Jennifer Lorch -- Parliamo di donne: feminism and politics in the theater of Franca Rame / Sharon Wood -- Tradition, traditions, and Dario Fo / Paolo Puppa -- The actor who writes: Dario Fo and the Nobel Prize / Joseph Farrell.