contents

volume 1
antiquity through
the eighteenth century
Preface
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
Plays
aeschylus
Agamemnon (ca. 458 b.c.e.)
sophocles
Oedipus the King (ca. 430425)
aristophanes
Lysistrata (411)
euripides
The Bacchae (406)
plautus
Pseudolus (191)
seneca
Thyestes (ca. 60 c.e.)
shudraka
The Little Clay Cart (ca. 100300)
hrotsvit of gandersheim
Dulcitius (ca. 975)
guan hanqing
Snow in Midsummer (13th century)
zeami motokiyo
Atsumori (ca. 1400)
the wakefield master
The Second Shepherds Play (ca. 1475)
anonymous
Everyman (ca. 1510)
thomas kyd
The Spanish Tragedy (1587)
christopher marlowe
The Tragical History of the Life and
Death of Doctor Faustus (ca. 1588)

thomas dekker
The Shoemakers Holiday (1599)
william shakespeare
Hamlet (160001)
Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (160001)
ben jonson
Volpone (1606)
john webster
The Duchess of Malfi (161314)
lope de vega
Fuenteovejuna (ca. 1614)
pedro caldern de la barca
Life Is a Dream (1636)
molire (jean-baptiste poquelin)
Tartuffe (1664)
william wycherley
The Country Wife (1675)
aphra behn
The Rover (1677)
jean racine
Phaedra (1677)
sor juana ins de la cruz
The Loa for the Auto Sacramental of
The Divine Narcissus (ca. 1690)
george lillo
The London Merchant (1731)
carlo goldoni
The Mistress of the Inn (1753)
richard brinsley sheridan
The School for Scandal (1777)
johann wolfgang von goethe
Faust, Part 1 (1808)

volume 2
the nineteenth century
to the present
Preface
Acknowledgments
General Introduction
Plays
georg bchner
Woyzeck (1836)
william wells brown
The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom (1858)
august strindberg
Miss Julie (1888)
henrik ibsen
Hedda Gabler (1891)
oscar wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
alfred jarry
Ubu the King (1896)
anton chekhov
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
john millington synge
Riders to the Sea (1904)
george bernard shaw
Pygmalion (1913)
susan glaspell
Trifles (1916)
luigi pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author
(1921)
langston hughes
Soul Gone Home (1936)
federico garca lorca
The House of Bernarda Alba (1936)
bertolt brecht
The Good Person of Setzuan (193840)
eugene oneill
Long Days Journey into Night (1941)
jean genet
The Maids (1947)

tennessee williams
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
arthur miller
Death of a Salesman (1949)
tawfiq al-hakim
Song of Death (1950)
samuel beckett
Waiting for Godot (1953)
derek walcott
The Sea at Dauphin (1954)
harold pinter
Old Times (1971)
wole soyinka
Death and the Kings Horseman (1975)
sam shepard
Buried Child (1978)
judith thompson
The Crackwalker (1980)
athol fugard
Master Harold . . . and the Boys (1982)
maria irene forns
Mud (1983)
david mamet
Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)
louis nowra
The Golden Age (1985)
august wilson
Fences (1985)
henry david hwang
M. Butterfly (1988)
tony kushner
Angels in America, Part I: Millennium
Approaches (1991)
suzan-lori parks
The America Play (1994)
edward albee
The Goat; or, Who Is Sylvia? (2002)
caryl churchill
A Number (2002)

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