Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.

"ISSN 1094-9232."

The clean house / by Sarah Ruhl -- Dog lady / by Milcha Sanchez-Scott -- The gospel at Colonus / by Lee Breuer -- The killer / by Eugene Ionesco -- A man for all seasons -- Night of January 16th / by Ayn Rand -- Seven guitars / by August Wilson -- Tribes / by Nina Raine -- Une Tempete / by Aime Cesaire -- A view from the bridge / by Arthur Miller -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- Witness for the prosecution / by Agatha Christie.