(1915-2005) Miller's best-known works are The Crucible, All My Sons (which won the 1947 Tony Award for best play), and Death of a Salesman

(1889 - 1961) playwright, director, producer, humorist, and drama critic. He most successfully collaborated with Moss Hart: Once in a Lifetime, You Can't Take It With You, The Man Who Came to Dinner

Pirandello (1867-1936) is one of the founding architects of 20th-century drama

Chekhov's four major plays--The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard--are frequently revived in modern productions.

Wilde (1854-1900) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer and Freemason. One of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London.

librettist Gilbert (1836-1911) and composer Sullivan (1842-1900) collaborated on a series of comic operas in Victorian England. Their operas (i.e. The Mikado) shaped the 20th century American musical

The four plays collected here were written late in Ibsen's career and reflect his then growing interests in internal conflicts and the dangers of self-deception

The German writer Buchner, who died in 1837 aged 23, left only 3 works for theatre. All 3 remained virtually unknown for half a century but today have found an important place in the modern repertory.

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays