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Notable Playwrights

Editor: Carl Rollyson,
    Baruch College, City College of New York
ISBN: 978-1-58765-195-3
List Price: $217

August 2004 · 3 volumes · 1,131 pages · 6"x9"

Notable Playwrights
Index

A
Abbey Theatre, 405, 937, 1058
Abe, Kōbō, 1-5
Friends, 3
Green Stockings, The, 4
Little Elephant Is Dead, The, 4
Man Who Turned into a Stick, The, 3
Seifuku, 3
Ue: Shin doreigari, 4
Absurd Person Singular (Ayckbourn), 57
Acharnians, The (Aristophanes), 45
Adam the Creator (Čapek brothers), 150
Adventure Story, The (Rattigan), 740
Aeschylus, 6-14
Agamemnon, 11
Persians, The, 10
Prometheus Bound, 13
Aesthetic movement, 995
After the Fall (Miller), 596
Agamemnon (Aeschylus), 11
Albee, Edward, 15-29
Delicate Balance, A, 22
Goat, The, 28
Man Who Had Three Arms, The, 25
Marriage Play, 27
Play About the Baby, The, 27
Seascape, 24
Three Tall Women, 26
Tiny Alice, 21
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 19
Albertine in Five Times (Tremblay), 958
Alcestis (Euripides), 278
Alchemist, The (Jonson), 522
Alison's House (Glaspell), 371
All for Love (Dryden), 236
All My Sons (Miller), 590
All That Fall (Beckett), 88
All's Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare), 813
Alzire (Voltaire), 985
Amadeus (Shaffer), 790
American Buffalo (Mamet), 556
Amphitryon (Plautus), 708
Amulets Against the Dragon Forces (Zindel), 1071
And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little (Zindel), 1069
Andorra (Frisch), 312
Andria (Terence), 948
Andromache (Racine), 726
Angel City (Shepard), 855
Angels Fall (Wilson), 1045
Angels in America, Part One (Kushner), 528
Angels in America, Part Two (Kushner), 528
Angels' Prayer (Hakim, al-), 420
Angry Young Men, 659, 687
Anouilh, Jean, 30-41
Antigone, 37
Ardèle, 39
Arrest, The, 36
Becket, 40
Dinner with the Family, 37
Lark, The, 39
Traveller Without Luggage, 35
Waltz of the Toreadors, The, 39
Antigone (Anouilh), 37
Antigone (Cocteau), 190
Antigone (Sophocles), 896
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 820
Approaching Zanzibar (Howe), 468
Arcadia (Stoppard), 923
Ardèle (Anoulih), 39
Aristophanes, 42-50
Acharnians, The, 45
Birds, The, 47
Clouds, The, 48
Ecclesiazusae, 48
Frogs, The, 49
Knights, The, 47
Lysistrata, 46
Peace, 46
Arms and the Man (Shaw), 839
Arouet, François-Marie. See Voltaire
Arrest, The (Anouilh), 36
Art of Dining, The (Howe), 467
Artist Descending a Staircase (Stoppard), 919
As You Like It (Shakespeare), 812
Asian American Theater Workshop, 174
Athaliah (Racine), 732
Audience, The (García Lorca), 337
Aureng-Zebe (Dryden), 235
Awake and Sing! (Odets), 633
Ayckbourn, Sir Alan, 51-60
Absurd Person Singular, 57
Bedroom Farce, 57
Chorus of Disapproval, A, 58
Henceforward, 58
How the Other Half Loves, 56
Man of the Moment, 58
Norman Conquest, The, 57
Relatively Speaking, 55
Season's Greetings, 58
Small Family Business, A, 58
Taking Steps, 57
Time and Time Again, 56
B
Baby with the Bathwater (Durang), 246
Bacchae, The (Euripides), 281
Bacchae, The (Soyinka), 909
Bajazet (Racine), 729
Balcony, The (Genet), 349
Bald Soprano, The (Ionesco), 507
Baptism, The (Baraka), 64
Barabbas (Lagerkvist), 540
Baraka, Amiri, 61-73
Baptism, The, 64
Dutchman, 66
Great Goodness of Life (A Coon Show), 68
Madheart, 68
Primitive World, 70
Slave Ship, 69
Barber of Seville, The (Beaumarchais), 77
Barefoot in the Park (Simon), 877
Bartholomew Fair (Jonson), 524
Battles of Coxinga, The (Chikamatsu), 168
Beatification of Area Boy, The (Soyinka), 911
Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de, 74-82
Barber of Seville, The, 77
Frailty and Hypocrisy, 81
Marriage of Figaro, The, 79
School of Rakes, The, 76
Tarare, 81
Two Friends, The, 77
Beaumont, Francis, 801
Beaux' Stratagem, The (Farquhar), 287
Becket (Anouilh), 40
Beckett, Samuel, 83-90
All That Fall, 88
Eh Joe, 89
Embers, 89
Endgame, 86
Film, 89
Happy Days, 87
Krapp's Last Tape, 87
Play, 88
Waiting for Godot, 85
Bedroom Farce (Ayckbourn), 57
Behan, Brendan, 91-98
Hostage, The, 96
Quare Fellow, The, 95
Belles-sœurs, Les (Tremblay), 952
Bérénice (Racine), 729
Berliner Ensemble, 106
Bernabé (Valdez), 965
Betsey Brown (Shange), 833
Betty's Summer Vacation (Durang), 247
Between War and Peace (Hakim, al-), 420
Beyond Therapy (Durang), 246
Big Knife, The (Odets), 636
Biloxi Blues (Simon), 881
Birds, The (Aristophanes), 47
Birth and After Birth (Howe), 465
Birthday Party, The (Pinter), 688
Bishop's Bonfire, The (O'Casey), 628
Bizarrías de Belisa, Las (Lope de Vega), 976
Black Arts movement, 1032
Blackfriars Theatre, 801
Blacks, The (Genet), 351
Blancs, Les (Hansberry), 437
Blood Knot, The (Fugard), 321
Blood Wedding (García Lorca), 338
Boesman and Lena (Fugard), 321
Bogosian, Eric, 99-103
Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead, 103
Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll, 102
SubUrbia, 102
Talk Radio, 101
Bonjour, là, bonjour (Tremblay), 955
Boogie Woogie Landscapes (Shange), 831
Book of Days (Wilson), 1046
Brand (Ibsen), 486
Brecht, Bertolt, 104-115, 307
Caucasian Chalk Circle, The, 113
Life of Galileo, 109
Mother Courage and Her Children, 111
Bright Room Called Day, A (Kushner), 528
Brighton Beach Memoirs (Simon), 880
Britannicus (Racine), 728
Broadway Bound (Simon), 881
Brothers, The (Terence), 947
Burbage, Richard, 800
Buried Child (Shepard), 856
Burn This (Wilson), 1045
Bus Stop (Inge), 498
Butley (Gray), 398
Butterfly's Evil Spell, The (García Lorca), 333
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 116-130
Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice, 127
Sardanapalus, 128
Werner, 126

C
Cabal and Love (Schiller), 777
Cabellos de Absalón, Los (Calderón de la Barca), 139
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 131-141
Cabellos de Absalón, Los, 139
Constant Prince, The, 133
Devotion to the Cross, The, 136
Great Theater of the World, The, 136
House with Two Doors Is Difficult to Guard, A, 135
Life Is a Dream, 137
Mayor of Zalamea, The, 138
Painter of His Dishonor, The, 140
Phantom Lady, The, 135
Secret Vengeance for Secret Insult, 138
Surgeon of His Honor, The, 135
Wonder-Working Magician, The, 139
California Suite (Simon), 879
Camp of Wallenstein, The (Schiller), 778
Candida (Shaw), 840
Cape and sword play, 134, 975
Čapek, Josef, 142
Adam the Creator, 150
Insect Play, The, 148
Lásky hra osudná, 146
Čapek, Karel, 142-152
Adam the Creator, 150
Insect Play, The, 148
Lásky hra osudná, 146
Macropulos Secret, The, 149
Mother, The, 151
Power and Glory, 150
Robber, The, 147
R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots, 148
Captain's Tiger, The (Fugard), 327
Captives, The (Plautus), 708
Caretaker, The (Pinter), 691
Caron, Pierre-Augustin. See Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de
Casey, John. See O'Casey, Sean
Casina (Plautus), 708
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Williams), 1024
Cathleen ni Houlihan (Yeats), 1060
Caucasian Chalk Circle, The (Brecht), 113
Chairs, The (Ionesco), 509
Changeling, The (Middleton and Rowley), 583
Chaste Maid in Cheapside, A (Middleton), 582
Chekhov, Anton, 153-165
Cherry Orchard, The, 162
Seagull, The, 157
Three Sisters, The, 160
Uncle Vanya, 159
Cherry Orchard, The (Chekhov), 162
Chickencoop Chinaman, The (Chin), 175
Chikamatsu Monzaemon, 166-172
Battles of Coxinga, The, 168
Love Suicides at Amijima, The, 171
Love Suicides at Sonezaki, The, 170
Children's Hour, The (Hellman), 448
Chin, Frank, 173-180
Chickencoop Chinaman, The, 175
Year of the Dragon, The, 177
Chorus of Disapproval, A (Ayckbourn), 58
Chorus, Greek, 6
Churchill, Caryl, 181-186
Cloud Nine, 184
Mouthful of Birds, A, 185
Top Girls, 183
Vinegar Tom, 184
Cid, The (Corneille), 213
Cinna (Corneille), 217
Clairmont, Claire, 123
Clash by Night (Odets), 636
Close of Play (Gray), 402
Cloud Nine (Churchill), 184
Clouds, The (Aristophanes), 48
Coastal Disturbances (Howe), 467
Cock-a-Doodle Dandy (O'Casey), 628
Cocktail Party, The (Eliot), 264
Cocteau, Jean, 187-194
Antigone, 190
Eagle Has Two Heads, The, 192
Intimate Relations, 191
Come Back, Little Sheba (Inge), 495
Comedy of embarrassment, 53
Comedy of Errors, The (Shakespeare), 808
Common Pursuit, The (Gray), 402
Condemned of Altona, The (Sartre), 769
Confidential Clerk, The (Eliot), 265
Congreve, William, 195-209
Double-Dealer, The, 202
Love for Love, 203
Mourning Bride, The, 205
Old Bachelor, The, 200
Way of the World, The, 206
Constant Couple, The (Farquhar), 285
Constant Prince, The (Calderón de la Barca), 133
Cook, George Cram, 368
Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 821
Corneille, Pierre, 210-221
Cid, The, 213
Cinna, 217
Death of Pompey, The, 219
Horace, 215
Illusion comique, L', 212
Liar, The, 219
Nicomède, 219
Œdipe, 219
Polyeucte, 218
Suréna, 220
Countess Cathleen, The (Yeats), 1059
Country Girl, The (Odets), 637
Country Wife, The (Wycherley), 1052
Coward, Noël, 222-229
Design for Living, 227
Private Lives, 228
Creation of the World and Other Business, The (Miller), 599
Crimes of the Heart (Henley), 460
Critic, The (Sheridan), 869
Critique of the School for Wives, The (Molière), 615
Crucible, The (Miller), 593
Cryptogram, The (Mamet), 559
Crystal and Fox (Friel), 298
Cuchulain plays, 1060
Curse of the Starving Class (Shepard), 856
Cymbeline (Shakespeare), 823
Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand), 748
D
Damask Drum, The (Mishima), 605
Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra (Tremblay), 957
Dance and the Railroad, The (Hwang), 474
Dance of the Forests, A (Soyinka), 904
Dancing at Lughnasa (Friel), 302
Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The (Inge), 499
Death and the King's Horseman (Soyinka), 909
Death of a Salesman (Miller), 591
Death of Pompey, The (Corneille), 219
Death of Wallenstein, The (Schiller), 778
Deathwatch (Genet), 346
Deep Blue Sea, The (Rattigan), 739
Deirdre of the Sorrows (Synge), 942
Déjàvu (Osborne), 666
Dekker, Thomas, 579
Roaring Girl, The, 581
Delicate Balance, A (Albee), 22
'dentity Crisis (Durang), 245
Design for Living (Coward), 227
Desire Under the Elms (O'Neill), 644
Devil and the Good Lord, The (Sartre), 768
Devotion to the Cross, The (Calderón de la Barca), 136
Diderot, Denis, 77
Dido, Queen of Carthage (Marlowe and Nashe), 565
Difficult Hour, I-III, The (Lagerkvist), 537
Dinner with the Family (Anouilh), 37
Dirty Hands (Sartre), 767
Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land (Stoppard), 921
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), 574
Dōjōji (Mishima), 607
Doll's House, A (Ibsen), 487
Don Carlos, Infante of Spain (Schiller), 777
Don Juan (Frisch), 308
Don Juan (Molière), 617
Don Sebastian, King of Portugal (Dryden), 237
Doña Rosita the Spinster (García Lorca), 340
Dos caras del patroncito, Las (Valdez), 965
Double-Dealer, The (Congreve), 202
Drame sérieux, le, 77
Dream Play, A (Strindberg), 931
Dreaming of the Bones, The (Yeats), 1061
Drums of Father Ned, The (O'Casey), 628
Dryden, John, 195, 230-240
All for Love, 236
Aureng-Zebe, 235
Don Sebastian, King of Portugal, 237
Marriage à la Mode, 233
Duchesse de Langeais, La (Tremblay), 956
Duck Variations (Mamet), 556
Duenna, The (Sheridan), 866
Dumb Waiter, The (Pinter), 690
Durang, Christopher, 241-247
Baby with the Bathwater, 246
Betty's Summer Vacation, 247
Beyond Therapy, 246
`dentity Crisis, 245
History of the American Film, A, 244
Idiots Karamazov, The, 244
Marriage of Bette and Boo, The, 246
Nature and Purpose of the Universe, The, 245
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, 245
Vietnamization of New Jersey, The, 244
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich, 248-256
Marriage of Mr. Mississippi, The, 252
Romulus the Great, 250
Visit, The, 253
Dutch Uncle (Gray), 397
Dutchman (Baraka), 66
Dybbuk, A (Kushner), 529
E
Each in His Own Way (Pirandello), 702
Eagle Has Two Heads, The (Cocteau), 192
Ecclesiazusae (Aristophanes), 48
Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The (Ryga), 755
Eden End (Priestley), 715
Edmond (Mamet), 560
Edward II (Marlowe), 572
Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, The (Zindel), 1067
Egmont (Goethe), 380
Eh Joe (Beckett), 89
Elder Statesman, The (Eliot), 266
Eleusinian Mysteries, Aeschylus and, 8
Eliot, T. S., 257-269
Cocktail Party, The, 264
Confidential Clerk, The, 265
Elder Statesman, The, 266
Family Reunion, The, 263
Murder in the Cathedral, 261
Embers (Beckett), 89
Emperor and Galilean (Ibsen), 486
Emperor Jones, The (O'Neill), 642
Endgame (Beckett), 86
Enemy of the People, An (Miller), 593
Entertainer, The (Osborne), 662
Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Orton), 653
Epic theater, 106
Epicœne (Jonson), 523
Equus (Shaffer), 789
Erpingham Camp, The (Orton), 655
Esther (Racine), 732
État des lieux, L' (Tremblay), 959
Eunuch, The (Terence), 947
Euripides, 270-282
Alcestis, 278
Bacchae, The, 281
Hippolytus, 279
Ion, 280
Medea, 278
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (Stoppard), 921
Every Man in His Humour (Jonson), 519
Every Seventeen Minutes the Crowd Goes Crazy! (Zindel), 1071
Existentialism, 760
Exit the King (Ionesco), 512
Eyes for Consuela (Shepard), 859
F
Family Devotions (Hwang), 475
Family Reunion, The (Eliot), 263
Farquhar, George, 283-288
Beaux' Stratagem, The, 287
Constant Couple, The, 285
Recruiting Officer, The, 286
Fate of a Cockroach, The (Hakim, al-), 419
Father, The (Strindberg), 929
Fences (Wilson), 1034
Field Day Productions, 296
Fiesco (Schiller), 777
Film (Beckett), 89
Firebugs, The (Frisch), 310
Five Finger Exercise (Shaffer), 787
Fletcher, John, 801
Henry VIII, 808
Two Noble Kinsmen, The, 824
Flies, The (Sartre), 763
Flower Drum Song (Hwang), 477
Flowering Peach, The (Odets), 638
F.O.B. (Hwang), 474
Food for the Millions (Hakim, al-), 420
Fool for Love (Shepard), 857
Foote, Horton, 289-294
Only the Heart, 292
Orphans' Home, The, 293
Trip to Bountiful, The, 292
For colored girls who have considered suicide/
when the rainbow is enuf
(Shange), 829
For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (Tremblay), 959
Forever Yours, Marie-Lou (Tremblay), 954
Fourth wall, 1007
Frailty and Hypocrisy (Beaumarchais), 81
Freedom of the City, The (Friel), 299
French Without Tears (Rattigan), 738
Friel, Brian, 295-305
Crystal and Fox, 298
Dancing at Lughnasa, 302
Freedom of the City, The, 299
Molly Sweeney, 303
Philadelphia, Here I Come!, 298
Translations, 301
Volunteers, 300
Wonderful Tennessee, 302
Friends (Abe), 3
Frisch, Max, 306-314
Andorra, 312
Don Juan, 308
Firebugs, The, 310
Frogs, The (Aristophanes), 49
From Okra to Greens (Shange), 832
Fugard, Athol, 315-328
Blood Knot, The, 321
Boesman and Lena, 321
Captain's Tiger, The, 327
Island, The, 322
Lesson from Aloes, A, 323
"MASTER HAROLD" . . . and the Boys, 324
My Life, 327
Playland, 326
Road to Mecca, The, 325
Sorrows and Rejoicings, 327
Valley Song, 327
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A (Sondheim), 887
G
Gaol Gate, The (Gregory), 409
García Lorca, Federico, 329-341
Audience, The, 337
Blood Wedding, 338
Butterfly's Evil Spell, The, 333
Doña Rosita the Spinster, 340
House of Bernarda Alba, The, 340
In the Frame of Don Cristóbal, 335
Love of Don Perlimplín for Belisa in His Garden, The, 336
Mariana Pineda, 333
Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife, The, 335
Tragicomedy of Don Cristóbal and Doña Rosita, The, 334
When Five Years Pass, 337
Yerma, 339
Garden Party, The (Havel), 443
Gardener's Dog, The (Lope de Vega), 976
Genet, Jean, 342-355
Balcony, The, 349
Blacks, The, 351
Deathwatch, 346
Maids, The, 348
Screens, The, 353
Gentleman Dancing-Master, The (Wycherley), 1050
Geography of Horse Dreamer (Shepard), 855
Ghost Sonata, The (Strindberg), 932
Ghosts (Ibsen), 488
Gift of the Gorgon, The (Shaffer), 792
Gilbert, W. S., 356-366
Gondoliers, The, 365
H.M.S. Pinafore, 362
Iolanthe, 363
Mikado, The, 364
Pirates of Penzance, The, 362
Yeomen of the Guard, The, 364
Glaspell, Susan, 367-372
Alison's House, 371
Trifles, 370
Verge, The, 370
Glass Menagerie, The (Williams), 1018
Glengarry Glen Ross (Mamet), 557
Globe Theatre, 801
Goat, The (Albee), 28
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 373-384
Egmont, 380
Goetz of Berlichingen, with the Iron Hand, 378
Iphigenia in Tauris, 379
Torquato Tasso, 380
Tragedy of Faust, The, 381
Goetz of Berlichingen, with the Iron Hand (Goethe), 378
Golden Boy (Odets), 635
Goldsmith, Oliver, 385-394
Good-Natured Man, The, 388
She Stoops to Conquer, 390
Gondoliers, The (Gilbert), 365
Good and Faithful Servant, The (Orton), 653
Good-Natured Man, The (Goldsmith), 388
Grand siècle, le, 723
Grania (Gregory), 410
Gray, Simon, 395-403
Butley, 398
Close of Play, 402
Common Pursuit, The, 402
Dutch Uncle, 397
Japes, 402
Otherwise Engaged, 400
Quartermaine's Terms, 402
Spoiled, 398
Stage Struck, 402
Wise Child, 397
Great Goodness of Life (A Coon Show) (Baraka), 68
Great Theater of the World, The (Calderón de la Barca), 136
Greater Dionysia, 8, 276, 894
Green Stockings, The (Abe), 4
Greene, Robert, 798
Gregory, Lady Augusta, 404-411
Gaol Gate, The, 409
Grania, 410
Spreading the News, 408
Travelling Man, The, 410
Workhouse Ward, The, 409
Group Theatre, 630
Gruppe 47, 423
H
Hakim, Tawfiq al-, 412-421
Angels' Prayer, 420
Between War and Peace, 420
Fate of a Cockroach, The, 419
Food for the Millions, 420
Himari qala li, 418
Incrimination, 419
King Oedipus, 418
Muhammad, 417
Not a Thing Out of Place, 419
People of the Cave, The, 417
Piraksa, 418
Poet on the Moon, 420
Princess Sunshine, 418
Pygmalion, 418
River of Madness, The, 417
Shahrazad, 417
Song of Death, The, 419
Sultan's Dilemma, The, 417
Tender Hands, 418
Tree Climber, The, 419
Voyage to Tomorrow, 419
Wisdom of Solomon, The, 417
Halliwell, Kenneth, 652
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Shakespeare), 816
Handke, Peter, 422-430
Kaspar, 425
Offending the Audience, 424
Ride Across Lake Constance, The, 427
Self-Accusation, 425
They Are Dying Out, 428
Hangman, The (Lagerkvist), 538
Hanjo (Mishima), 606
Hansberry, Lorraine, 431-439
Blancs, Les, 437
Raisin in the Sun, A, 434
Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, The, 436
Hapgood (Stoppard), 922
Happy Days (Beckett), 87
Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, The (Wilder), 1007
Haunted House, The (Plautus), 709
Havel, Václav, 440-446
Garden Party, The, 443
Increased Difficulty of Concentration, The, 444
Memorandum, The, 444
Temptation, 446
Hedda Gabler (Ibsen), 489
Heidi Chronicles, The (Wasserstein), 990
Hellman, Lillian, 447-456
Children's Hour, The, 448
Little Foxes, The, 452
Watch on the Rhine, 454
Henceforward (Ayckbourn), 58
Henley, Beth, 457-463
Crimes of the Heart, 460
Miss Firecracker Contest, The, 461
Wake of Jamey Foster, The, 461
Henry IV (Pirandello), 701
Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare), 806
Henry IV, Part II (Shakespeare), 807
Henry V (Shakespeare), 807
Henry VI, Part I (Shakespeare), 803
Henry VI, Part II (Shakespeare), 804
Henry VI, Part III (Shakespeare), 804
Henry VIII (Shakespeare and Fletcher), 808
Himari qala li (Hakim, al-), 418
Hippolytus (Euripides), 279
Hiraoka, Kimitake. See Mishima, Yukio
History of the American Film, A (Durang), 244
History play, Shakespearean, 803
H.M.S. Pinafore (Gilbert), 362
Homecoming, The (Pinter), 694
Horace (Corneille), 215
Hosanna (Tremblay), 956
Hostage, The (Behan), 96
Hot l Baltimore, The (Wilson), 1043
House of Bernarda Alba, The (García Lorca), 340
House of Sleeping Beauties, The (Kawabata), 475
House with Two Doors Is Difficult to Guard, A (Calderón de la Barca), 135
How the Other Half Loves (Ayckbourn), 56
Howe, Tina, 464-470
Approaching Zanzibar, 468
Art of Dining, The, 467
Birth and After Birth, 465
Coastal Disturbances, 467
Museum, 466
Nest, The, 465
Painting Churches, 467
Pride's Crossing, 468
Hwang, David Henry, 471-479
Dance and the Railroad, The, 474
Family Devotions, 475
Flower Drum Song, 477
F.O.B., 474
House of Sleeping Beauties, The, 475
M. Butterfly, 475
Rich Relations, 475
Sound of a Voice, The, 475
I
I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges! (Valdez), 966
Ibsen, Henrik, 447, 480-492
Brand, 486
Doll's House, A, 487
Emperor and Galilean, 486
Ghosts, 488
Hedda Gabler, 489
Master Builder, The, 491
Rosmersholm, 488
Vikings at Helgeland, The, 486
Iceman Commeth, The (O'Neill), 647
Ideal Husband, An (Wilde), 999
Idiots Karamazov, The (Durang and Innaurato), 244
Illusion comique, L' (Corneille), 212
Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (Parks), 670
Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde), 1001
Impromptu of Outrement, The (Tremblay), 957
In Praise of Love (Rattigan), 741
In the Blood (Parks), 671
In the Frame of Don Cristóbal (García Lorca), 335
In the Shadow of the Glen (Synge), 939
Inadmissible Evidence (Osborne), 664
Incident at Vichy (Miller), 597
Increased Difficulty of Concentration, The (Havel), 444
Incrimination (Hakim, al-), 419
Indian (Ryga), 754
Indian Ink (Stoppard), 922
Inge, William, 493-500
Bus Stop, 498
Come Back, Little Sheba, 495
Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The, 499
Picnic, 497
Innaurato, Albert
Idiots Karamazov, The, 244
Insect Play, The (Čapek brothers), 148
Inspector Calls, An (Priestley), 719
Intimate Relations (Cocteau), 191
Invention of Love, The (Stoppard), 923
Iolanthe (Gilbert), 363
Ion (Euripides), 280
Ionesco, Eugène, 501-515
Bald Soprano, The, 507
Chairs, The, 509
Exit the King, 512
Killer, The, 510
Lesson, The, 508
Man with Bags, 513
Rhinoceros, 511
Iphigenia in Aulis (Racine), 730
Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe), 379
Irish Literary Renaissance, 405, 621, 936, 1058
Island, The (Fugard), 322
Isn't It Romantic (Wasserstein), 990
J
Japes (Gray), 402
Jero's Metamorphosis (Soyinka), 908
Jew of Malta, The (Marlowe), 569
Jidaimono, 168
Jitney (Wilson), 1037
Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Wilson), 1035
Johnson over Jordan (Priestley), 718
Johnson, Samuel, 386
Jones, LeRoi. See Baraka, Amiri
Jonson, Ben, 516-525
Alchemist, The, 522
Bartholomew Fair, 524
Epicœne, 523
Every Man in His Humour, 519
Volpone, 520
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 815
Jumpers (Stoppard), 918
Juno and the Paycock (O'Casey), 626
Justice Without Revenge (Lope de Vega), 977
K
Kabuki, 167
Kant, Immanuel, 776
Kantan (Mishima), 606
Kaspar (Handke), 425
Kawabata, Yasunari, 602
Kean (Sartre), 769
Killer, The (Ionesco), 510
King, The (Lagerkvist), 538
King and the Farmer, The (Lope de Vega), 975
King Hedley II (Wilson), 1037
King John (Shakespeare), 805
King Lear (Shakespeare), 818
King Oedipus (Hakim, al-), 418
King, the Greatest Alcalde, The (Lope de Vega), 974
King's Men, 799
Knight from Olmedo, The (Lope de Vega), 976
Knights, The (Aristophanes), 47
Kongi's Harvest (Soyinka), 906
Krapp's Last Tape (Beckett), 87
Kushner, Tony, 526-530
Angels in America, Part One, 528
Angels in America, Part Two, 528
Bright Room Called Day, A, 528
Dybbuk, A, 529
Slavs!, 529
Kyd, Thomas, 565
L
Lady Aoi, The (Mishima), 606
Lady Nit-Wit, The (Lope de Vega), 976
Lady Windermere's Fan (Wilde), 999
Lagerkvist, Pär, 531-541
Barabbas, 540
Difficult Hour, I-III, The, 537
Hangman, The, 538
King, The, 538
Let Man Live, 540
Man Who Lived His Life Over, The, 538
Man Without a Soul, The, 539
Midsummer Dream in the Workhouse, 539
Osynlige, Den, 537
Philosopher's Stone, The, 540
Secret of Heaven, The, 537
Seger i mörker, 539
Lakeboat (Mamet), 556
Lark, The (Anouilh), 39
Lásky hra osudná (Čapek brothers), 146
Late Henry Moss, The (Shepard), 859
Laughing comedy, 388
Lesson from Aloes, A (Fugard), 323
Lesson, The (Ionesco), 508
Let Man Live (Lagerkvist), 540
Liar, The (Corneille), 219
Lie of the Mind, A (Shepard), 858
Life in the Sun, A (Wilder), 1013
Life Is a Dream (Calderón de la Barca), 137
Life of Galileo (Brecht), 109
Like Death Warmed Over (Tremblay), 953
Literary Club, 386
Litigants, The (Racine), 728
Little Elephant Is Dead, The (Abe), 4
Little Foxes, The (Hellman), 452
Little Night Music, A (Sondheim), 887
Littlewood, Joan, 92
Look Back in Anger (Osborne), 661
Loot (Orton), 654
Lost in Yonkers (Simon), 882
Love for Love (Congreve), 203
Love in a Wood (Wycherley), 1049
Love of Don Perlimplín for Belisa in His Garden, The (García Lorca), 336
Love Space Demands, The (Shange), 833
Love Suicides at Amijima, The (Chikamatsu), 171
Love Suicides at Sonezaki, The (Chikamatsu), 170
Love's Labour's Lost (Shakespeare), 810
Luther (Osborne), 663
Lysistrata (Aristophanes), 46
M
M. Butterfly (Hwang), 475
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Wilson), 1034
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 819
McCullers, Carson, 542-550
Member of the Wedding, The, 546
Square Root of Wonderful, The, 549
Macropulos Secret, The (Čapek), 149
Madame de Sade (Mishima), 608
Madheart (Baraka), 68
Madmen and Specialists (Soyinka), 909
Magistrate, The (Pinero), 678
Maid of Orleans, The (Schiller), 779
Maids, The (Genet), 348
Maison suspendue, La (Tremblay), 958
Major Barbara (Shaw), 844
Mamet, David, 551-562
American Buffalo, 556
Cryptogram, The, 559
Duck Variations, 556
Edmond, 560
Glengarry Glen Ross, 557
Lakeboat, 556
Oleanna, 558
Reunion, 560
Sexual Perversity in Chicago, 556
Speed-the-Plow, 558
Man and Superman (Shaw), 842
Man of the Moment (Ayckbourn), 58
Man Who Had All the Luck, The (Miller), 590
Man Who Had Three Arms, The (Albee), 25
Man Who Lived His Life Over, The (Lagerkvist), 538
Man Who Turned into a Stick, The (Abe), 3
Man with Bags (Ionesco), 513
Man Without a Soul, The (Lagerkvist), 539
Marcel Pursued by the Hounds (Tremblay), 958
Mariana Pineda (García Lorca), 333
Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice (Byron), 127
Marlowe, Christopher, 563-577, 803
Dido, Queen of Carthage, 565
Doctor Faustus, 574
Edward II, 572
Jew of Malta, The, 569
Massacre at Paris, The, 571
Tamburlaine the Great, Part I, 565
Tamburlaine the Great, Part II, 567
Marriage à la Mode (Dryden), 233
Marriage of Bette and Boo, The (Durang), 246
Marriage of Figaro, The (Beaumarchais), 79
Marriage of Mr. Mississippi, The (Dürrenmatt), 252
Marriage Play (Albee), 27
Mary Stuart (Schiller), 778
Massacre at Paris, The (Marlowe), 571
Master Builder, The (Ibsen), 491
"MASTER HAROLD" . . . and the Boys (Fugard), 324
Matchmaker, The (Wilder), 1012
Mayor of Zalamea, The (Calderón de la Barca), 138
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare), 814
Medea (Euripides), 278
Melindres de Belisa, Los (Lope de Vega), 975
Member of the Wedding, The (McCullers), 546
Memorandum, The (Havel), 444
Memory of Two Mondays, A (Miller), 594
Menander, 946
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare), 811
Mérope (Voltaire), 985
Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Shakespeare), 813
Middleton, Thomas, 578-586
Changeling, The, 583
Chaste Maid in Cheapside, A, 582
Roaring Girl, The, 581
Women Beware Women, 584
Midsummer Dream in the Workhouse (Lagerkvist), 539
Midsummer Night's Dream, A (Shakespeare), 810
Mikado, The (Gilbert), 364
Miller, Arthur, 587-601
After the Fall, 596
All My Sons, 590
Creation of the World and Other Business, The, 599
Crucible, The, 593
Death of a Salesman, 591
Enemy of the People, An, 593
Incident at Vichy, 597
Man Who Had All the Luck, The, 590
Memory of Two Mondays, A, 594
Price, The, 598
View from the Bridge, A, 594
Misanthrope, The (Molière), 618
Mishima, Yukio, 602-609
Damask Drum, The, 605
Dōjōji, 607
Kantan, 606
Lady Aoi, The, 606
Madame de Sade, 608
My Friend Hitler, 608
Sotoba Komachi, 604
Miss Firecracker Contest, The (Henley), 461
Miss Julie (Strindberg), 930
Mithridates (Racine), 730
Molière, 610-620
Critique of the School for Wives, The, 615
Don Juan, 617
Misanthrope, The, 618
School for Wives, The, 614
Tartuffe, 615
Versailles Impromptu, The, 615
Molly Sweeney (Friel), 303
Mother, The (Čapek), 151
Mother Courage and Her Children (Brecht), 111
Mother-in-Law, The (Terence), 949
Mourning Bride, The (Congreve), 205
Mouthful of Birds, A (Churchill), 185
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare), 811
Muhammad (Hakim, al-), 417
Mummified Deer (Valdez), 966
Murder in the Cathedral (Eliot), 261
Museum (Howe), 466
My Friend Hitler (Mishima), 608
My Life (Fugard), 327
N
Nashe, Thomas, 565
Dido, Queen of Carthage, 565
Nature and Purpose of the Universe, The (Durang), 245
Nekrassov (Sartre), 769
Nest, The (Howe), 465
New Africa Group, 318
New Comedy, 705
Nicomède (Corneille), 219
Night and Day (Stoppard), 921
Night Music (Odets), 636
Night of the Iguana, The (Williams), 1027

Mishima, 604
Yeats, 1061
No Exit (Sartre), 764
Nobel Prize
Beckett, Samuel, 83
Eliot, T. S., 260
Lagerkvist, Pär 535
O'Neill, Eugene, 641
Pirandello, Luigi, 699
Shaw, George Bernard, 838
Soyinka, Wole, 902
Yeats, William Butler, 1059
Norman Conquest, The (Ayckbourn), 57
Not a Thing Out of Place (Hakim, al-), 419
O
O'Casey, Sean, 407, 621-629
Bishop's Bonfire, The, 628
Cock-a-Doodle Dandy, 628
Drums of Father Ned, The, 628
Juno and the Paycock, 626
Plough and the Stars, The, 627
Purple Dust, 627
Red Roses for Me, 628
Shadow of a Gunman, The, 626
Silver Tassie, The, 627
Odd Couple, The (Simon), 878
Odets, Clifford, 630-639
Awake and Sing!, 633
Big Knife, The, 636
Clash by Night, 636
Country Girl, The, 637
Flowering Peach, The, 638
Golden Boy, 635
Night Music, 636
Paradise Lost, 634
Rocket to the Moon, 635
Till the Day I Die, 633
Waiting for Lefty, 632
Œdipe (Corneille), 219
Oedipus (Voltaire), 984
Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles), 896
Oedipus Tyrannus (Sophocles), 898
Offending the Audience (Handke), 424
Old Bachelor, The (Congreve), 200
Old Comedy, 43
Oleanna (Mamet), 558
On Baile's Strand (Yeats), 1060
O'Neill, Eugene, 640-650
Desire Under the Elms, 644
Emperor Jones, The, 642
Iceman Commeth, The, 647
Only the Heart (Foote), 292
Operation Sidewinder (Shepard), 854
Orphans' Home, The (Foote), 293
Orton, Joe, 651-658
Entertaining Mr. Sloane, 653
Erpingham Camp, The, 655
Good and Faithful Servant, The, 653
Loot, 654
Ruffian on the Stair, The, 652
What the Butler Saw, 656
Osborne, John, 659-667
Déjàvu, 666
Entertainer, The, 662
Inadmissible Evidence, 664
Look Back in Anger, 661
Luther, 663
West of Suez, 665
Osynlige, Den (Lagerkvist), 537
Othello, the Moor of Venice (Shakespeare), 817
Otherwise Engaged (Gray), 400
Our Town (Wilder), 1008
P
Painter of His Dishonor, The (Calderón de la Barca), 140
Painting Churches (Howe), 467
Palliatae, 946
Paradise Lost (Odets), 634
Parks, Suzan-Lori, 668-673
Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, 670
In the Blood, 671
Topdog/Underdog, 672
Venus, 671
Pater, Walter, 995
Patter songs, 361
Peace (Aristophanes), 46
People of the Cave, The (Hakim, al-), 417
Peribáñez (Lope de Vega), 973
Pericles (Shakespeare), 822
Persians, The (Aeschylus), 10
Phaedra (Racine), 730
Phantom Lady, The (Calderón de la Barca), 135
Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Friel), 298
Philosopher's Stone, The (Lagerkvist), 540
Phormio (Terence), 948
Photograph, A (Shange), 830
Piano Lesson, The (Wilson), 1035
Piccolominis, The (Schiller), 778
Picnic (Inge), 497
Pinero, Arthur Wing, 674-684
Magistrate, The, 678
Profligate, The, 681
Second Mrs. Tanqueray, The, 682
Sweet Lavender, 679
Pinter, Harold, 685-696
Birthday Party, The, 688
Caretaker, The, 691
Dumb Waiter, The, 690
Homecoming, The, 694
Room, The, 687
Piraksa (Hakim, al-), 418
Pirandello, Luigi, 697-704
Each in His Own Way, 702
Henry IV, 701
Right You Are, 699
Six Characters in Search of an Author, 700
Pirates of Penzance, The (Gilbert), 362
Pizarro (Sheridan), 870
Plain-Dealer, The (Wycherley), 1054
Plautus, 705-710, 946
Amphitryon, 708
Captives, The, 708
Casina, 708
Haunted House, The, 709
Twin Menaechmi, The, 709
Play (Beckett), 88
Play About the Baby, The (Albee), 27
Play of Giants, A (Soyinka), 911
Playbill (Rattigan), 739
Playboy of the Western World, The (Synge), 940
Playland (Fugard), 326
Plough and the Stars, The (O'Casey), 627
Ploughmen of the Glacier (Ryga), 756
Poet on the Moon (Hakim, al-), 420
Polyeucte (Corneille), 218
Poquelin, Jean-Baptiste. See Molière
Pound, Ezra, 259, 1061
Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead (Bogosian), 103
Power and Glory (Čapek), 150
Préciosité, 745
Price, The (Miller), 598
Pride's Crossing (Howe), 468
Priestley, J. B., 711-722
Eden End, 715
Inspector Calls, An, 719
Johnson over Jordan, 718
Time and the Conways, 716
Primitive World (Baraka), 70
Princess Sunshine (Hakim, al-), 418
Private Lives (Coward), 228
Profligate, The (Pinero), 681
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus), 13
Provincetown Players, 367
Publius Terentius Afer. See Terence
Pulitzer Prize
Albee, Edward, 16
Foote, Horton, 291
Glaspell, Susan, 367
Henley, Beth, 457
Inge, William, 493
Kushner, Tony, 526
Mamet, David, 551
Miller, Arthur, 588
O'Neill, Eugene, 641
Parks, Suzan-Lori, 669
Shepard, Sam, 850
Simon, Neil, 874, 882
Wasserstein, Wendy, 988
Wilder, Thorton, 1006
Williams, Tennessee, 1017
Wilson, August, 1034
Wilson, Lanford, 1039
Zindel, Paul, 1064
Puppet theater, 166
Purgatory (Yeats), 1061
Purple Dust (O'Casey), 627
Pygmalion (Hakim, al-), 418
Q
Quare Fellow, The (Behan), 95
Quartermaine's Terms (Gray), 402
R
Racine, Jean, 723-733
Athaliah, 732
Bajazet, 729
Bérénice, 729
Britannicus, 728
Esther, 732
Iphigenia in Aulis, 730
Litigants, The, 728
Mithridates, 730
Phaedra, 730
Raisin in the Sun, A (Hansberry), 434
Rattigan, Terence, 734-742
Adventure Story, The, 740
Deep Blue Sea, The, 739
French Without Tears, 738
In Praise of Love, 741
Playbill, 739
Ross, 740
Real Thing, The (Stoppard), 922
Real World?, The (Tremblay), 958
Recruiting Officer, The (Farquhar), 286
Red Roses for Me (O'Casey), 628
Relatively Speaking (Ayckbourn), 55
Remember Me (Tremblay), 958
Requiem for a Futurologist (Soyinka), 911
Reunion (Mamet), 560
Rhinoceros (Ionesco), 511
Rich Relations (Hwang), 475
Richard II (Shakespeare), 806
Richard III (Shakespeare), 805
Ride Across Lake Constance, The (Handke), 427
Riders to the Sea (Synge), 938
Right You Are (If You Think So) (Pirandello), 699
Rimers of Eldritch, The (Wilson), 1042
Rivals, The (Sheridan), 864
River of Madness, The (Hakim, al-), 417
Road to Mecca, The (Fugard), 325
Road, The (Soyinka), 906
Roaring Girl, The (Middleton and Dekker), 581
Robber, The (Čapek), 147
Robbers, The (Schiller), 776
Rocket to the Moon (Odets), 635
Rogers, Samuel Shepard, VII. See Shepard, Sam
Romantics, The (Rostand), 747
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 815
Romulus the Great (Dürrenmatt), 250
Room, The (Pinter), 687
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Stoppard), 917
Rosmersholm (Ibsen), 488
Ross (Rattigan), 740
Rostand, Edmond, 743-750
Cyrano de Bergerac, 748
Romantics, The, 747
Rowley, William, 579, 583
Changeling, The, 583
Royal Hunt of the Sun, The (Shaffer), 788
Ruffian on the Stair, The (Orton), 652
R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots (Čapek), 148
Ruskin, John, 995
Ryga, George, 751-759
Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The, 755
Indian, 754
Ploughmen of the Glacier, 756
S
Saint Carmen of the Main (Tremblay), 955
Saint Joan (Shaw), 846
St. Patrick's Day (Sheridan), 871
Salomé (Wilde), 997
Sardanapalus (Byron), 128
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 760-772
Condemned of Altona, The, 769
Devil and the Good Lord, The, 768
Dirty Hands, 767
Flies, The, 763
Kean, 769
Nekrassov, 769
No Exit, 764
Trojan Woman, The, 771
Satyr play, 271
Schiller, Friedrich, 773-782
Cabal and Love, 777
Camp of Wallenstein, The, 778
Death of Wallenstein, The, 778
Don Carlos, Infante of Spain, 777
Fiesco, 777
Maid of Orleans, The, 779
Mary Stuart, 778
Piccolominis, The, 778
Robbers, The, 776
William Tell, 781
School for Scandal, The (Sheridan), 868
School for Wives, The (Molière), 614
School of Rakes, The (Beaumarchais), 76
Screens, The (Genet), 353
Seagull, The (Chekhov), 157
Seascape (Albee), 24
Season's Greetings (Ayckbourn), 58
Second Mrs. Tanqueray, The (Pinero), 682
Secret of Heaven, The (Lagerkvist), 537
Secret Vengeance for Secret Insult (Calderón de la Barca), 138
Seger i mörker (Lagerkvist), 539
Seifuku (Abe), 3
Self-Accusation (Handke), 425
Self-Tormentor, The (Terence), 948
Sensibility, Age of, 388
Sentimental comedy, 387
Sentimentalism, 864
Seven Guitars (Wilson), 1036
Sewamono, 168
Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll (Bogosian), 102
Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Mamet), 556
Shadow of a Gunman, The (O'Casey), 626
Shaffer, Peter, 783-794
Amadeus, 790
Equus, 789
Five Finger Exercise, 787
Gift of the Gorgon, The, 792
Royal Hunt of the Sun, The, 788
Shahrazad (Hakim, al-), 417
Shakespeare, William, 518, 795-826, 980
All's Well That Ends Well, 813
Antony and Cleopatra, 820
As You Like It, 812
Comedy of Errors, The, 808
Coriolanus, 821
Cymbeline, 823
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, 816
Henry IV, Part I, 806
Henry IV, Part II, 807
Henry V, 807
Henry VI, Part I, 803
Henry VI, Part II, 804
Henry VI, Part III, 804
Henry VIII, 808
Julius Caesar, 815
King John, 805
King Lear, 818
Love's Labour's Lost, 810
Macbeth, 819
Measure for Measure, 814
Merchant of Venice, The, 811
Merry Wives of Windsor, The, 813
Midsummer Night's Dream, A, 810
Much Ado About Nothing, 811
Othello, the Moor of Venice, 817
Pericles, 822
Richard II, 806
Richard III, 805
Romeo and Juliet, 815
Taming of the Shrew, The, 809
Tempest, The, 824
Timon of Athens, 817
Titus Andronicus, 814
Troilus and Cressida, 817
Twelfth Night, 812
Two Gentlemen of Verona, 810
Two Noble Kinsmen, The, 824
Winter's Tale, The, 823
Shange, Ntozake, 827-834
Betsey Brown, 833
Boogie Woogie Landscapes, 831
for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, 829
From Okra to Greens, 832
Love Space Demands, The, 833
Photograph, A, 830
Spell No. 7, 831
Shaw, George Bernard, 835-849
Arms and the Man, 839
Candida, 840
Major Barbara, 844
Man and Superman, 842
Saint Joan, 846
She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith), 390
Sheep Well, The (Lope de Vega), 974
Shelley, Mary, 124
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 123
Shepard, Sam, 850-860
Angel City, 855
Buried Child, 856
Curse of the Starving Class, 856
Eyes for Consuela, 859
Fool for Love, 857
Geography of Horse Dreamer, 855
Late Henry Moss, The, 859
Lie of the Mind, A, 858
Operation Sidewinder, 854
Simpatico, 858
States of Shock, 858
Tooth of Crime, The, 855
True West, 857
Turista, La, 854
Unseen Hand, The, 854
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 861-872
Critic, The, 869
Duenna, The, 866
Pizarro, 870
Rivals, The, 864
St. Patrick's Day, 871
School for Scandal, The, 868
Trip to Scarborough, A, 871
Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife, The (García Lorca), 335
Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, The (Hansberry), 436
Silver Tassie, The (O'Casey), 627
Simon, Neil, 873-884
Barefoot in the Park, 877
Biloxi Blues, 881
Brighton Beach Memoirs, 880
Broadway Bound, 881
California Suite, 879
Lost in Yonkers, 882
Odd Couple, The, 878
Simpatico (Shepard), 858
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (Durang), 245
Sisters Rosenweig, The (Wasserstein), 991
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Pirandello), 700
Skin of Our Teeth, The (Wilder), 1010
Slave Ship (Baraka), 69
Slavs! (Kushner), 529
Small Family Business, A (Ayckbourn), 58
Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer (Tremblay), 959
Sondheim, Stephen, 885-889
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A, 887
Little Night Music, A, 887
Sunday in the Park with George, 888
Sweeney Todd, 887
Song of Death, The (Hakim, al-), 419
Sophocles, 890-900
Antigone, 896
Oedipus at Colonus, 896
Oedipus Tyrannus, 898
Sorrows and Rejoicings (Fugard), 327
Sotoba Komachi (Mishima), 604
Sound of a Voice, The (Hwang), 475
Soyinka, Wole, 901-913
Bacchae, The, 909
Beatification of Area Boy, The, 911
Dance of the Forests, A, 904
Death and the King's Horseman, 909
Jero's Metamorphosis, 908
Kongi's Harvest, 906
Madmen and Specialists, 909
Play of Giants, A, 911
Requiem for a Futurologist, 911
Road, The, 906
Strong Breed, The, 906
Trials of Brother Jero, The, 908
Spanish Golden Age, 131, 969
Speed-the-Plow (Mamet), 558
Spell No. 7 (Shange), 831
Spoiled (Gray), 398
Spreading the News (Gregory), 408
Square Root of Wonderful, The (McCullers), 549
Stage Struck (Gray), 402
Stagecraft
Aeschylus, 7
Euripides, 272
Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 155
States of Shock (Shepard), 858
Stephen Joseph Theatre-in-the-Round, 52
Stoppard, Tom, 914-924
Arcadia, 923
Artist Descending a Staircase, 919
Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land, 921
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, 921
Hapgood, 922
Indian Ink, 922
Invention of Love, The, 923
Jumpers, 918
Night and Day, 921
Real Thing, The, 922
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, 917
Travesties, 919
Straussler, Tomas. See Stoppard, Tom
Streetcar Named Desire, A (Williams), 1020
Strindberg, August, 925-934
Dream Play, A, 931
Father, The, 929
Ghost Sonata, The, 932
Miss Julie, 930
Strong Breed, The (Soyinka), 906
Sturm und Drang, 374
subUrbia (Bogosian), 102
Sugimori, Nobumori. See Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 357
Sultan's Dilemma, The (Hakim, al-), 417
Sunday in the Park with George (Sondheim), 888
Suréna (Corneille), 220
Surgeon of His Honor, The (Calderón de la Barca), 135
Sweeney Todd (Sondheim), 887
Sweet Lavender (Pinero), 679
Synge, John Millington, 935-943
Deirdre of the Sorrows, 942
In the Shadow of the Glen, 939
Playboy of the Western World, The, 940
Riders to the Sea, 938
T
Taking Steps (Ayckbourn), 57
Talk Radio (Bogosian), 101
Talley and Son (Wilson), 1045
Talley's Folly (Wilson), 1044
Tamburlaine the Great, Part I (Marlowe), 565
Tamburlaine the Great, Part II (Marlowe), 567
Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare), 809
Tarare (Beaumarchais), 81
Tartuffe (Molière), 615
Teatro Campesino, El, 962
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 824
Temptation (Havel), 446
Tender Hands (Hakim, al-), 418
Terence, 944-949
Andria, 948
Brothers, The, 947
Eunuch, The, 947
Mother-in-Law, The, 949
Phormio, 948
Self-Tormentor, The, 948
Theater of the Absurd, 687
They Are Dying Out (Handke), 428
Three Sisters, The (Chekhov), 160
Three Tall Women (Albee), 26
Till the Day I Die (Odets), 633
Time and the Conways (Priestley), 716
Time and Time Again (Ayckbourn), 56
Timon of Athens (Shakespeare), 817
Tiny Alice (Albee), 21
Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare), 814
Tooth of Crime, The (Shepard), 855
Top Girls (Churchill), 183
Topdog/Underdog (Parks), 672
Torquato Tasso (Goethe), 380
Tragedy, 211, Greek, 6
Tragedy of Faust, The (Goethe), 381
Tragicomedy of Don Cristóbal and Doña Rosita, The (García Lorca), 334
Translations (Friel), 301
Traveller Without Luggage (Anouilh), 35
Travelling Man, The (Gregory), 410
Travesties (Stoppard), 919
Tree Climber, The (Hakim, al-), 419
Tremblay, Michel, 950-960
Albertine in Five Times, 958
Belles-sœurs, Les, 952
Bonjour, là, bonjour, 955
Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra, 957
Duchesse de Langeais, La, 956
État des lieux, L', 959
For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, 959
Forever Yours, Marie-Lou, 954
Hosanna, 956
Impromptu of Outrement, The, 957
Like Death Warmed Over, 953
Maison suspendue, La, 958
Marcel Pursued by the Hounds, 958
Real World?, The, 958
Remember Me, 958
Saint Carmen of the Main, 955
Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer, 959
Trials of Brother Jero, The (Soyinka), 908
Trifles (Glaspell), 370
Trip to Bountiful, The (Foote), 292
Trip to Scarborough, A (Sheridan), 871
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare), 817
Trojan Woman, The (Sartre), 771
True West (Shepard), 857
Turista, La (Shepard), 854
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), 812
Twin Menaechmi, The (Plautus), 709
Two Friends, The (Beaumarchais), 77
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare), 810
Two Noble Kinsmen, The (Shakespeare and Fletcher), 824
Two Trains Running (Wilson), 1036
U
Ue: Shin doreigari (Abe), 4
Uncle Vanya (Chekhov), 159
Uncommon Women and Others (Wasserstein), 990
University Wits, 565, 798
Unseen Hand, The (Shepard), 854
V
Valdez, Luis Miguel, 961-968
Bernabé, 965
Dos caras del patroncito, Las, 965
I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges!, 966
Mummified Deer, 966
Zoot Suit, 966
Valley Song (Fugard), 327
Vega Carpio, Lope de, 131, 969-978
Bizarrías de Belisa, Las, 976
Gardener's Dog, The, 976
Justice Without Revenge, 977
King and the Farmer, The, 975
King, the Greatest Alcalde, The, 974
Knight from Olmedo, The, 976
Lady Nit-Wit, The, 976
Melindres de Belisa, Los, 975
Peribáñez, 973
Sheep Well, The, 974
Venus (Parks), 671
Verge, The (Glaspell), 370
Versailles Impromptu, The (Molière), 615
Verse play, 1059
Vietnamization of New Jersey, The (Durang), 244
View from the Bridge, A (Miller), 594
Vikings at Helgeland, The (Ibsen), 486
Vinegar Tom (Churchill), 184
Visit, The (Dürrenmatt), 253
Volpone (Jonson), 520
Voltaire, 979-987
Alzire, 985
Mérope, 985
Oedipus, 984
Zaïre, 984
Volunteers (Friel), 300
Voyage to Tomorrow (Hakim, al-), 419
W
Waiting for Godot (Beckett), 85
Waiting for Lefty (Odets), 632
Wake of Jamey Foster, The (Henley), 461
Waltz of the Toreadors, The (Anouilh), 39
Wasserstein, Wendy, 988-993
Heidi Chronicles, The, 990
Isn't It Romantic, 990
Sisters Rosenweig, The, 991
Uncommon Women and Others, 990
Watch on the Rhine (Hellman), 454
Way of the World, The (Congreve), 206
Webster, John, 579
Werner (Byron), 126
West of Suez (Osborne), 665
What the Butler Saw (Orton), 656
When Five Years Pass (García Lorca), 337
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Albee), 19
Wilde, Oscar, 994-1003
Ideal Husband, An, 999
Importance of Being Earnest, The, 1001
Lady Windermere's Fan, 999
Salomé, 997
Woman of No Importance, A, 999
Wilder, Thornton, 1004-1015
Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, The, 1007
Life in the Sun, A, 1013
Matchmaker, The, 1012
Our Town, 1008
Skin of Our Teeth, The, 1010
William Tell (Schiller), 781
Williams, Paulette. See Shange, Ntozake
Williams, Tennessee, 1016-1031
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1024
Glass Menagerie, The, 1018
Night of the Iguana, The, 1027
Streetcar Named Desire, A, 1020
Wilson, August, 1032-1038
Fences, 1034
Jitney, 1037
Joe Turner's Come and Gone, 1035
King Hedley II, 1037
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, 1034
Piano Lesson, The, 1035
Seven Guitars, 1036
Two Trains Running, 1036
Wilson, Lanford, 1039-1047
Angels Fall, 1045
Book of Days, 1046
Burn This, 1045
Hot l Baltimore, The, 1043
Rimers of Eldritch, The, 1042
Talley and Son, 1045
Talley's Folly, 1044
Winter's Tale, The (Shakespeare), 823
Wisdom of Solomon, The (Hakim, al-), 417
Wise Child (Gray), 397
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 426
Woman of No Importance, A (Wilde), 999
Women Beware Women (Middleton), 584
Wonder-Working Magician, The (Calderón de la Barca), 139
Wonderful Tennessee (Friel), 302
Words upon the Window-pane, The (Yeats), 1061
Workhouse Ward, The (Gregory), 409
Workshop 47, 641
Wycherley, William, 1048-1056
Country Wife, The, 1052
Gentleman Dancing-Master, The, 1050
Love in a Wood, 1049
Plain-Dealer, The, 1054
X
Y
Year of the Dragon, The (Chin), 177
Yeats, William Butler, 405, 936, 1057-1063
Cathleen ni Houlihan, 1060
Countess Cathleen, The, 1059
Dreaming of the Bones, The, 1061
On Baile's Strand, 1060
Purgatory, 1061
Words upon the Window-pane, The, 1061
Yeomen of the Guard, The (Gilbert), 364
Yerma (García Lorca), 339
Z
Zaïre (Voltaire), 984
Zindel, Paul, 1064-1073
Amulets Against the Dragon Forces, 1071
And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, 1069
Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, The, 1067
Every Seventeen Minutes the Crowd Goes Crazy!, 1071
Zoot Suit (Valdez), 966


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