Table of Contents

GUEST FOREWORD
"The Study of Drama"
Carole L. Hamilton ......... vii

INTRODUCTION .......... ix

LITERARY CHRONOLOGY ....... xiii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ........ xv

CONTRIBUTORS ........... xix

84, CHARING CROSS ROAD
Helene Hanff ........... 1

THE DUCHESS OF MALFI
John Webster ........... 20

ELECTRA
Hugo von Hofmannsthal ....... 44

GOLDEN BOY
Clifford Odets ........... 75

JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE
August Wilson .......... 100

MISS LULU BETT
Zona Gale ........... 126

ORPHEUS DESCENDING
Tennessee Williams ........ 160

OVERTONES
Alice Gerstenberg ........ 181

THE PETRIFIED FOREST
Robert E. Sherwood ........ 192

THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG
Wendy Wasserstein ........ 211

THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES
Frank D. Gilroy .......... 231

SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO
Dore Schary ........... 251

THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE
William Saroyan .......... 274

GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS …. 301

CUMULATIVE AUTHOR/TITLE INDEX . . 335

NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY INDEX … 341

SUBJECT/THEME INDEX ....... 345