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Shares the author's experience as a participant-observer Chautauquan, placed within the context of the national revival in the U.S. Background of Chautauqua; Groundwork for the revival of the tent Chautauqua movement; Formation of the Wyoming Chautauqua Society; Workshops; Future of Chautauqua movement.

Presents abstracts of articles relating to literature and oral interpretation. Inclusion of 'Necessary Misreadings: Directions in Narrative Theory for Children's Literature,' by Peter Hunt, published in the journal 'Studies in the Literary Imagination'; 'Deconstruction and Linguistic Analysis,' by Ronald Schleifer, published in the April 1987 issue of the journal 'College English.'

Interviews storyteller, wit, lecturer and writer Quentin Crisp. Television adaptation of Crisp's autobiography 'The Naked Civil Servant'; Success as a solo performer; Tours in the U.S. and Great Britain in the one-man show 'An Evening With Quentin Crisp'; Factors that influenced Crisp to solo performance.

Presents abstracts of articles relating to literature and oral interpretation. Inclusion of 'Chautauqua: On the Road and Doing Fine,' by Jane Curry, published in the November/December 1982 issue of 'Federation Reports'; 'Dialogics As an Art of Discourse in Literary Criticism,' by Don H. Bialostosky, published in the October 1986 issue of 'PMLA.'

Examines the one-man shows 'Emlyn Williams As Charles Dickens' and Hal Holbrook's 'Mark Twain Tonight!' which were performed on Broadway in New York City during the 1950s. Exploration of the biographical one-person show genre; Wide variation open to the contemporary solo performer; Use of direct audience address to link the various vignettes that comprise the body of the script.