LESLIE KANE is Professor of English at Westfield State College where she teaches modern drama and world literature. She is the author of The Language of Silence: On the Unspoken and the Unspeakable in Modern Drama and editor of David Mamet: A Casebook. Her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and books, including The Pinter Review, World Literature Today, The Yearbook of English Studies, Theatre Journal, and Feminine Focus: The New Women Playwrights. She is currently writing Weasels and Wisemen: A Study of Jewish Identity in the Plays of Harold Pinter and David Mamet. Kane is vice-president of the Harold Pinter Society.