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| Introduction: Drama, Theater, and Culture | |
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| Reading Drama and Seeing Theater | |
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| Drama and Theater in History | |
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| Dramatic Genres | |
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| Dramatic Form | |
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| The Stage in Critical Practice | |
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| Interpreting the Mterial Past | |
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| The Theater Of Classical Europe | |
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| Aside: Roman Drama and Theater | |
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| Reading the Material Theater: Pronomos Painter | |
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| Sophocles, Oedipus the King | |
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| Euripides, Medea | |
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| Plautus, The Brothers Menaechmus | |
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| Critical Contexts: Aristotle, from The Poetics | |
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| Horace, from On the Art of Poetry | |
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| Classical Japan | |
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| Aside: Sanskrit Drama and Theater | |
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| Reading the Material Theater: A Portrait of Seki Sanjuro II | |
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| Matsukaze | |
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| Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Samurai | |
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| Critical Contexts: Zeami Motokiyo, from A Mirror Held to the Flower | |
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| Medieval and Renaissance England | |
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| Aside: The Jacobean Court Masque | |
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| Reading the Material Theater: Titus Andronicus title page | |
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| Anonymous, The York Crucifixion | |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
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| Hamlet | |
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| Critical Contexts: Sir Philip Sidney, from Apology for Poetry | |
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| Early Modern Europe | |
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| Aside: Commedia Dell' Arte | |
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| Reading the Material Theater: Betterton's acting style | |
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| Pedro Calder?n de la Barca, Life Is a Dream | |
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| Tartuffe | |
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| The Rover | |
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| Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz, Loa to The Divine Narcissus | |
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| Critical Contexts: John Dryden, Preface to Troilus and Cressida, Containing the Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy | |
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| Modern Europe | |
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| Aside: Melodrama | |
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| Reading the Material Theater: Ibsen's Notes for the Modern Tragedy | |
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| A Doll's House | |
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| Ubu Roi | |
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| A Dream Play | |
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| Major Barbara | |
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| Mother Courage and Her Children | |
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| Endgame | |
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| Cloud Nine | |
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| Critical Contexts: Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Birth of Tragedy | |
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| From Naturalism in the Theatre | |
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| From "Direction and Acting" | |
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| "The Street Scene" | |
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| From The Theater and Its Double | |
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| The United States | |
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| Aside: The Federal Theater Project | |
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| Aside: Performance Art | |
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| Reading the Material Theater: "A Jury of Her Peers," | |
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| Trifles | |
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| Machinal | |
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| The Glass Menagerie | |
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| Death of a Salesman | |
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| Amiri Barake | |
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| Dutchman | |
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| Los vendidos | |
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| M. Butterfly | |
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| Angels in America, Part 1 Milennium Approaches | |
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| Fires in the Mirror | |
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| Critical Contexts: Arthur Miller, Tragedy and the Common Man | |
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| Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones, "The Revolutionary Theatre" | |
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| World Stages | |
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| Aside: Intercultural Performance | |
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| Reading the Material Theater: Program Notes for Translations | |
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| Information for Foreigners | |
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| Death and the King's Horseman | |
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| Translations | |
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| The Other Shore | |
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| Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing | |
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| Harvest | |
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| Critical Contexts: Frantz Fanon, from "The Fact of Blackness." | |
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| From Theatre of the Oppressed | |
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| From Post-Colonial Drama | |
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| Glossary | |
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| List of Illustrations and Photographs | |
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| Index | |