Table of Contents:
  • Criticism and plays. Character in drama. Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen
  • Character in expressionistic drama. Everyman / Anonymous
  • The world of the play. Mother Courage and her children / Bertolt Brecht
  • The world in expressionistic drama. The skin of our teeth / Thornton Wilder
  • Plot. Antigone / Sophocles
  • Plot on the psychological level. Stronger / August Strindberg
  • The nature of drama. Hamlet / William Shakespeare
  • Plays for further reading. The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov
  • Riders to the sea / John Millington Synge
  • The Misanthrope / Molière
  • Tiger at the gates / Jean Giraudoux
  • Picnic on the battlefield / Fernando Arrabal.