INTRODUCTION: READING SCRIPT INTO PLAY
Conventions of Dramatic Scripts
How Conventions Work: The Reader's Challenge
Exposition
The Structure of a Play: Scenes and Acts
The Two Masks: Comedy and Tragedy
Some Modern Variations on the Traditional Masks
The Language of Drama
Imagery
A Retrospective View of the Model Readings
Do It Yourself: Writing About Drama
Questions About Drama
Some Theoretical Perspectives
Tragedy and Comedy: Aristotle (trans. S. H. Butcher),
Northrop Frye, George Meredith, and Henri Bergson
(trans. Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell) The Absurd: Martin Esslin

Metatheater: Lionel Abel
Against Tradition: Antonin Artaud (trans. Helen Weaver),
John McGrath, and Michel Foucault
(trans. Donald F. Bouchard and Sherry Simon)

AN ANTHOLOGY OF PLAYS.
The Greek Theater
Sophocles, Oedipus the King (trans. Robert Bagg)
Euripides, The Bacchae (trans. Michael Cacoyannis)
Aristophanes, Lysistrata (trans. Douglass Parker)

SHAKESPEARE AND HIS THEATER
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, edited and with notes, by A. D. Richardson, III
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, edited and with notes by Tucker Brooke and Jack Randall Crawford
William Shakespeare, Othello, edited and with notes by Tucker Brooke and Lawrence Mason

THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
Moliere, Tartuffe (trans. Curtis Hidden Page)
Aphra Behn, The Rover
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals

MODERN DRAMA
Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck (trans. Frances E. Archer)
Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard (trans. Constance Garnett)
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Eugene O'Neill, The Hairy Ape
Samuel Beckett, Rough for Theatre I
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Eugene Ionesco, Jack or the Submission, (trans. Donald M. Allen)
James Baldwin, Blues for Mister Charlie
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

THE LATER TWENTIETH CENTURY
Derek Walcott, Pantomime
Athol Fugard, The Road to Mecca
Wole Soyinka, The Lion and the Jewel
Arthur Kopit, Indians
Caryl Churchill, Vinegar Tom
Martin Sherman, Messiah
Charles Fuller, A Soldier's Play
August Wilson, Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Marsha Norman, Getting Out
Carlos Morton, Rancho Hollywood
Elaine Jackson, Paper Dolls
David Henry Hwang, M Butterfly
Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema, and Barney Simon, Woza Albert

Acknowledgements
Index