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SquareBoston,MA 02116  \n# A Pocket Guide to Twentieth Century Drama\n\nStephen Unwin is Aristie Director of English Touring  \nTheatre and has directed more than fifty professional theatreand opera productions.He is the joint author,with KennethMcLeish,of A Pocket Guide to Shakespeare's Plays.  \nCarole Woddis is a freelance theatre journalist and writer.For the past ten years she has been The Herald's Londondrama critic.She has co-edited two editions of the BloomsburyTheatre Guide(with Trevor R.Griffiths)and published acollection of interviews with actresses,Sheer Bloody Magic(Virago).She is a Visiting Tutor in Journalism at GoldsmithsCollege,University of London.  \n# A POCKET GUIDE TO SHAKESPEARE's PLAYSby Kenneth McLeish and Stephen Unwin\n\n# A POCKET GUIDE TO\n\nTwentieth Century Drama  \nStephen Unwinwith Carole Woddis  \nfaber and faber  \nFirst published in 200Iby Faber and Faber Limited3 Queen Square London wCIN 3AU  \nPublished in the United States by Faber and Faber Inc.an affliate of Farrar,Straus and Giroux LLC,New York  \nTypeset by Faber and FaberPrinted in England by Mackays of Chatham  \nAll rights reservedStephen Unwin with Carole Woddis,200I  \nThe right of Stephen Unwin and Carole Woddis to be identified asauthors of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section77 of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act I988  \nThis book is sold suhject to the condition tbat it sball not,by way of trade orotberwise,he lent,resold,bired out or otberwise circulated without thepublisher's prior consent in ay forn of binding or cover other than tbatin which it is published and without a similar condition including thiscondition being imposed on the snbsequent purchaser  \nA CIP record for this book is available fron the British Library  \n1SBN O-57I-20OI4-I  \n1098765432 I  \nContents  \nIntroduction viiThe fifty greatest plays?xvii  \nI Arthur Schnitzler,La Ronde I  \n2 August Strindberg,The Dance of Death 63 Anton Chekhov,The Cherry Orchard II  \n4 Harley Granville Barker,The Voysey Inberitance I75 J.M.Synge,The Playboy of the Western World 236 Githa Sowerby,Rutherford and Son 297 D.H.Lawrence,The Daughter-in-Law 348 George Bernard Shaw,Heartbreak House 38  \n9 Luigi Pirandello,Six Characters in Search of an Author 44Io Sean O'Casey,Juno and the Paycock 50I R.C.Sherriff,Journey's End 55  \nI2 Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur,The Front Page 61I3 Noel Coward,Private Lives 66  \nI4 Ödön von Horváth,Tales fron the Vienna Woods 72I5 Federico García Lorca,Blood Wedding 7716 T.S.Eliot,Murder in the Cathedral 83  \n17 Bertolt Brecht,Mother Courage and ber Children 8818 Eugene O'Neill,Long Day's Journey into Night 93I9 J.B.Priestley,An Inspector Calls 99  \n20 Ena Lamont Stewart,Men Should Weep I052I Jean Genet,The Maids I IO  \n22 Samuel Beckett,Waiting for Godot I1523 Arthur Miller,Death of a Salesman I2I24 Terence Rattigan,The Deep Blue Sea I2725 Eugene Ionesco,The Chairs 133  \n26 Tennessee Williams,Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 13927 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