Includes bibliographical references (p.1621-1641) and index.

The plays. Oedipus the King / Sophocles -- Lysistrata / Aristophanes -- The Bacchae / Euripides -- The martyrdom of the holy virgins Agape, Chionia, and Hirena / Hrotsvit of Gandersheim -- Snow in midsummer / Guan Hanqing -- Atsumori / Zeami Motokiyo -- Everyman / anonymous -- Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- Hamlet / William Shakespeare -- Twelfth night / William Shakespeare -- Tartuffe / Molière -- The rover / Aphra Behn -- Loa for the Divine Narcissus / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz -- Miss Julie / August Strindberg -- Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen -- The importance of being Earnest / Oscar Wilde -- The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov -- Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw -- Trifles / Susan Glaspell -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello -- Soul gone home / Langston Hughes -- The good woman of Setzuan / Bertolt Brecht -- A streetcar named Desire / Tennessee Williams -- Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller -- Song of death / Tawfiq al-Hakim -- Waiting for Godot / Samuel Becket -- Death and the King's horseman / Wole Soyinka -- The crackwalker / Judith Thompson -- Fences / August Wilson -- M. Butterfly / David Henry Hwang -- Angels in America, Part I: Millennium approaches / Tony Kushner -- The American play / Suzan-Lori Parks -- A number / Caryl Churchill.