This comprehensive and balanced anthology offers a collection of 25 works of modern and contemporary drama from
the 1870s through the early 1990s.
Features twenty-five plays that often demonstrate a significant breakthrough in maturity of expression and style
for each playwright � important leaders in the development of modern and contemporary drama.
Table of Contents
PLAYS
Henrik Ibsen. A Doll's House
August Strindberg. Miss Julie
Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest
George Bernard Shaw. Pygmalion
Anton Chekhov. The Cherry Orchard
Luigi Pirandello. Six Characters in Search of an Author
John Millington Synge. The Playboy of the Western World
Susan Glaspell. The Verge.
Eugene O'Neill. Desire Under the Elms
Thornton Wilder. Our Town
Bertolt Brecht. The Threepenny Opera
Lillian Hellman. The Children's Hour
Samuel Beckett. Endgame
Eugène Ionesco. Rhinoceros
Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie
Arthur Miller. All My Sons
Edward Albee. The Zoo Story
Lorraine Hansberry. A Raisin in the Sun
Harold Pinter. The Birthday Party
Wole Soyinka. The Lion and the Jewel
Tom Stoppard. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Sam Shepard. Buried Child
August Wilson. The Piano Lesson
Marsha Norman. 'night Mother
Wendy Wasserstein. The Sisters Rosensweig
DRAMA THEORY AND CRITICISM.
George Bernard Shaw. The Technical Novelty of Ibsen's Plays.
August Strindberg. Author's Preface toMiss Julie
Francis Fergusson. From The Idea of a Theater
Luigi Pirandello. Preface to Six Characters in Search of an Author
Karen Malpede. Reflections on The Verge
Doris Alexander. Desire Under the Elms.
Thornton Wilder. Some Thoughts on Playwriting.
Bertolt Brecht. Selected Writings on The Threepenny Opera
Martin Esslin. Samuel Beckett: The Search for Self.
Eugène Ionesco. From Notes and Counter Notes: Writings on the Theatre
Geoffrey Borny. The Two Glass Menageries:Reading Edition and Acting Edition.
Arthur Miller. Ibsen and the Drama of Today.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Chitlin Circuit.
Katherine H. Burkman. The Demeter Myth and Doubling in Marsha Norman's'night Mother
Chronology of Drama, History and Culture.
Glossary.
Credits.
