Introduction
Chapter One
The Middle Ages as a State of Mind
Chapter Two
Commedia dell’arte and Molière
Chapter Three
Shakespeare to Begin
Chapter Four
Euripides—Forever Modern
Chapter Five
Aeschylus—Writing in an Age of Certainty
Chapter Six
Sophocles and Aristotle—Defining Tragedy
Chapter Seven
Greek Comedy
Chapter Eight
Roman Theater
Chapter Nine
Asian Classics and Rules
Chapter Ten
China—the Pear Garden and the Red Pear Garden
Chapter Eleven
Neoclassic Theater and Why There is Such a Thing
Chapter Twelve
Shakespeare’s Classic
Chapter Thirteen
Bad Boys Breaking the Rules
Chapter Fourteen
Inside Outside
Chapter Fifteen
Beyond Illusion
Chapter Sixteen
Melodrama and Popular Theater in America
Chapter Seventeen
American Classic: Eugene O’Neill and Martha Graham
Chapter Eighteen
Expressionism to Epic
Chapter Nineteen
American Agitprop (Overt and Disguised)
Chapter Twenty
Poetry of the Theater
Chapter Twenty-One
Personal Mythology
Chapter Twenty-Two
Two Masters: Samuel Beckett and Tennessee Williams
Chapter Twenty-Three
Theater of Identity
Chapter Twenty-Four
Missing from History
Bibliography