Table of Contents

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

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

LITERARY CHRONOLOGY ....... xiii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ........ xv

CONTRIBUTORS .......... xvii

CALM DOWN MOTHER
Megan Terry ............ 1

A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE
Thomas Middleton ......... 18

THE DESERTER
Norman Beim .......... 50

ENDGAME
Samuel Beckett .......... 63

I'M NOT RAPPAPORT
Herb Gardner ........... 88

LOST IN YONKERS
Neil Simon ........... 106

MULATTO
Langston Hughes ......... 133

THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD
J. M. Synge ........... 162

THE ROSE TATTOO
Tennessee Williams ........ 176

THE SOUND OF A VOICE
David Henry Hwang ........ 207

THE SQUARE ROOT OF WONDERFUL
Carson McCullers ........ 224

TARTUFFE
Molière ............ 243

THE VERGE
Susan Glaspell .......... 276

GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS .... 305

CUMULATIVE AUTHOR/TITLE INDEX . 339

NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY INDEX ... 345

SUBJECT/THEME INDEX ...... 349