Introduction 1 John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western Worm (1907) 2 George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan (1923) 3 Sean O'Casey, Juno and the Paycock (1924) 4 Noel Coward, Private Lives (1930) 5 Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1953) 6 John Osborne, Look Back in Anger (1956) 7 Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party (1958) 8 Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstem Are Dead (1966) 9 Brian Friel, Translations (1980) 10 Caryl Churchill, Top Girls (1982) Selected Bibliography Index