Introduction / Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz
Vaclav Havel in word and deed / Paul Wilson
Havel's castle / J.P. Stern
All the president's plays / Stanislaw Baranczak
Prague: intellectuals and politicians / Timothy Garton Ash
Havel's choice / Stephen Schiff
Play on words / Lewis Lapham
President Havel / Rob McRae
Two democratic revolutionaries: Tomas G. Masaryk and Vaclav Havel / H. Gordon Skilling
Performer of political thought: Vaclav Havel on freedom and responsibility / Jean Bethke Elshtain. Vaclav Havel and the rhetoric of folly / Kenneth S. Zagacki
Vaclav Havel's construction of a democratic discourse: politics in a postmodern age / Dean C. Hammer
Havel's The Garden Party revisited / Paul I. Trensky
Havel's The Memorandum and the despotism of technology / Phyllis Carey
Spectacular pretending: Havel's The Beggar's Opera / Peter Steiner
Vaclav Havel: the once and future playwright / Robert Skloot
Delirious subjectivity: four scenes from Havel / Michael L. Quinn
Life under absurdity: Vaclav Havel's Largo Desolato / Douglas Soderberg.Variations of temptation
Vaclav Havel's politics of language / Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz
"That bourgeois brat!" / Josef Skvorecky
Jubilee / Vaclav Belohradsky
Reflections on Vaclav Havel / Jirina Siklova
t Timely reflections on a seemingly untimely playwright / Andrej Krob
Role of the Czech president / Vaclav Havel.
