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