John Arden
Introduction Resources Manner Matter Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance and Ars Longa, Vita Brevis The Island of the Mighty and Pearl Afterword
Macmillan Modern Dramatists
Noel Coward
The Mask Society’s Hero Consider the Audience … ‘I’ve Had to Formulate a Creed …’ Mainly about Style Five Comedies Afterword
Alan Ayckbourn
In the Beginning The Plots Thicken Ritual Behaviour Laughing Till It Hurts Winter Solstice Onwards and Upwards The State of the Nation Chronology of Plays
Arthur Miller
The Young Playwright (1915-49) Looking for the World that Would Be Perfect The Man Who Had All the Luck and All My Sons Death of a Salesman The Crucible A View from the Bridge Non-Theatrical Writing After the Fall The Price The Creation of the World and Other Business and Playing for Time Conclusion
Jean Genet
Genet’s Theatre: Biography and Other Background Deathwatch: The Ideal of Murder and the Prison System The Maids: Slavery and Absolute Desire The Balcony: Fascism and the Creative Process The Blacks: Play-Acting as the Black Man’s Burden The Screens: Mother and Son or the Third World’s Revenge The Spectator’s Response to Genet
Bertolt Brecht
Introduction: Life and Works The Plays of the Twenties Theories of Theatre Brecht’s Practice of Theatre Saint Joan of the Stockyards Mother Courage and Her Children The Life of Galileo The Good Person of Szechwan The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Tennessee Williams
Introduction and Life Form, Theme and Character Early One-Act Plays (1939-46) The Glass Menagerie (1944) A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) Summer and Smoke (1947) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) Wanderer Plays (1957-9) Reversals of the Pattern (1943-61 Late Plays (1962-81)
Wole Soyinka
A note on accents Brief Life Sources and Influences The Leeds Plays The Independence Plays Plays of the Sixties A Post-War Play Plays of Exile Plays for Nigeria of the Seventies and Eighties A Play of Giants
Edward Albee
Introduction Albee on Theatre Albee in the Theatre: Tiny Alice; Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao; Intimate Theatre Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Delicate Balance All Over Seascape Hermetic Albee: Listening The Lady from Dubuque