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cONTeNTs

vOlUme 1 antiquity through the eighteenth century

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsGeneral Introduction

Playsaeschylus

Agamemnon (ca. 458 b.c.e.) sophocles

Oedipus the King (ca. 430–425) aristophanes

Lysistrata (411) euripides

The Bacchae (406) plautus

Pseudolus (191) seneca

Thyestes (ca. 60 c.e.) shudraka

The Little Clay Cart (ca. 100–300) 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 dekkerThe Shoemaker’s Holiday (1599)

william shakespeareHamlet (1600–01)Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (1600–01)

ben jonsonVolpone (1606)

john webster The Duchess of Malfi (1613–14)

lope de vegaFuenteovejuna (ca. 1614)

pedro calderón de la barcaLife Is a Dream (1636)

molière (jean-baptiste poquelin) Tartuffe (1664)

william wycherleyThe Country Wife (1675)

aphra behnThe Rover (1677)

jean racinePhaedra (1677)

sor juana inés de la cruzThe 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)

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vOlUme 2the nineteenth century to the present

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsGeneral Introduction

Playsgeorg büchner

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 syngeRiders to the Sea (1904)

george bernard shawPygmalion (1913)

susan glaspellTrifles (1916)

luigi pirandelloSix Characters in Search of an Author

(1921)langston hughes

Soul Gone Home (1936)federico garcía lorca

The House of Bernarda Alba (1936)bertolt brecht

The Good Person of Setzuan (1938–40)eugene o’neill

Long Day’s Journey into Night (1941)jean genet

The Maids (1947)

tennessee williamsA Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

arthur millerDeath of a Salesman (1949)

tawfiq al-hakimSong of Death (1950)

samuel beckettWaiting for Godot (1953)

derek walcottThe Sea at Dauphin (1954)

harold pinterOld Times (1971)

wole soyinkaDeath and the King’s Horseman (1975)

sam shepardBuried Child (1978)

judith thompsonThe Crackwalker (1980)

athol fugardMaster Harold . . . and the Boys (1982)

maria irene fornésMud (1983)

david mametGlengarry Glen Ross (1983)

louis nowraThe Golden Age (1985)

august wilsonFences (1985)

henry david hwangM. Butterfly (1988)

tony kushnerAngels 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)