The task of the poet / H. Ibsen --
Naturalism on the stage / E. Zola --
On modern drama and modern theatre / A. Strindberg --
Advice to playwrights / A. Chekhov --
The tragic in daily life / M. Maeterlinck --
Language, character, and construction / W.B. Yeats --
Some platitudes concerning drama / J. Galsworthy --
How to write a popular play / B. Shaw --
The authority of the theatre / F.G. Lorca--
Two laws / J. Giraudoux --
Memoranda on masks / E. O'Neill --
A short organum for the theatre / B. Brecht --
Some thoughts on playwriting / T. Wilder --
Forgers of myths / J. Sartre --
Problems of the theatre / F. Duerrenmatt --
Declaration / J. Osborne --
The starting point / E. Ionesco --
Hedda Gabler / H. Ibsen --
A dream play / A. Strindberg --
Widowers' houses: a collaboration / W.A. Shaw --
The playboy of the western world --
The tinker's wedding / J.M. Synge --
Six characters in search of an author / L. Pirandello --
Hoppla, such is life! / E. Toller --
The shoemaker's prodigious wife / F.G. Lorca --
The great god Brown / E. O'Neill --
Les maries de la Tour Eiffel / J. Cocteau --
Cock-a-doodle dandy / S. O'Casey --
Murder in the cathedral --
The cocktail party/ T.S. Eliot --
Death of a salesman / A. Miller --
Camino real / T. Williams --
The chairs / E. Ionesco --