Preface
Contents
Introduction:The Idea of a Theatre
PART ONE :From the Beginning to shakespeare
Introduction
Quem Quaeritis
Abraham and Isaac
Everyman
Udall:Ralph Poister doister
PART TWO:Shakespeare and His contemporaries
introduction
Marlowe:Doctor Faustus
Shakespeare:hamlet
Shakespeare:The Tempest
Johnson:Volpone
Beaumont:The Knight of the Burning Pestle
Webster:Duchess of Malfi
PART THREE :Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Introduction
Dryden:All for Love
congreve:The Way of the World
Sheridan:The School for Scandal
PART FOUR:The Nineteenth Century
Introduction
Robertson:Caste
Wilde:Lady Windermere's Fan
PART FIVE :The Twentieth Century
Introduction
Shaw:Major Barbara
Osborne:Look Back in Anger
Pinter:The dumb Waiter
Bond:Lear
A Representative List of Plays
Selective Bibiography