"Revised and expanded from the original [1935 ed.] ... edited by Burns Mantle and John Gassner" -- T.p. Verso.

v. 1. World drama from Aeschylus to Turgenev : The classical age : Agamemnon / Aeschylus -- Oedipus the king / Sophocles -- The Trojan women / Euripides -- The frogs / Aristophanes -- The Menaechmi / Plautus -- The brothers / Terence -- The Oriental theatre : Shakuntala / Kalidasa -- Sotoba Komachi / Kwanami -- The Medieval drama : Abraham and Isaac / Anonymous -- The second shepherds' play / Anonymous -- Everyman / Anonymous -- The renaissance : The tragical history of Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- Hamlet / William Shakespeare -- Volpone / Ben Jonson -- The Duchess of Malfi / John Webster -- Fuente ovejuna / Lope de Vega -- The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : The misanthrope / Molier︡e -- Phaedra / Jean Racine -- The way of the world / William Congreve -- The school for scandal / RIchard Brinsley Sheridan -- The romantic and early realistic drama : Fauste, part one / J.W. von Goethe -- No trifling with love / Alfred de Musset -- Danton's death / Georg Büchner -- The inspector / Nikolai Gogol -- Maria Magdalena / Friedrich Hebbel -- A month in the country / Ivan Turgenev -- A representative list of plays to 1875 : Clasic drama -- Oriental drama -- Medieval European drama -- Tudor and Stuart drama -- Spanish drama -- Neoclassic French drama -- Restoration drama -- Eighteenth-century drama -- Romanticism -- Early realism. v. 2. Modern European drama from Ibsen to Jean-Paul Sartre : Realism and naturalism : Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen -- Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen -- The father / August Strindberg -- The vultures / Henry Becque -- The weavers / Gerhart Hauptmann -- The tenor / Frank Wedekind -- The power of darkness / Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy -- The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov -- The lower depths / Maxim Gorki -- Departures from realism : The intruder / Maurice Maeterlinck -- Cyrano de Bergerac / Edmond Rostand -- There are crimes and crimes / August Strindberg -- Liliom / Ferenc Molnar -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello -- R.U.R. / Karel Capek -- Blood wedding / Federico García Lorca -- from The private life of the master race / Bertolt Brecht -- The flies / Jean-Paul Sartre -- A representative list of modern plays : Scandinavian drama -- Central European drama -- French drama -- Italian drama -- Spanish drama -- Hebrew drama -- Russian drama. v. 3. Modern drama from Oscar Wilde to Eugene Ionesco : Modern drama in England and Ireland : The importance of being earnest / Oscar Wilde -- Candida / George Bernard Shaw -- The admirable Crichton / James M. Barrie -- Escape / John Galsworthy -- The workhouse ward / Lady Gregory -- Riders to the sea / John Millington Synge -- The plough and the stars . Sean O'Casey -- The circle / W. Somerset Maugham -- Journey's end / R.C. Sherriff -- Blithe spirit / Noel Coward -- Modern American drama : Ana Christie / Eugene O'Neill -- The hairy ape / Eugene O'Neill -- What price glory? / Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson -- Elizabeth the Queen / Maxwell Anderson -- The green pastures / Marc Connelly -- Our town / Thornton Wilder -- Golden boy / Clifford Odets -- The little foxes / Lillian Hellman -- My heart's in the Highlands / WIlliam Saroyan -- The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams -- Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller -- Modernist directions : A dream play / August Strindberg -- The tidings brought to Mary / Paul Claudel -- The madwoman of Chaillot / Jean Giraudoux -- The lark / Jean Anouilh -- The maids / Jean Genet -- The chairs / Eugen︡e ionesco -- Representative list of modern plays : English drama -- Irish drama -- American drama.