Realism in the modern American theatre / J. Gassner -- The vanity of personality: the development of Eugene O'Neill / A. Goldman -- European influences / J. Rosenberg -- The group theatre and its plays / G. Weales -- The poets in the American theatre / K.J. Worth -- Success and the American dramatist / M. Freedman -- Arthur Miller: the development of a political dramatist in America / E. Mottram -- Cinematic structure in the work of Tennessee Williams / G. Brandt -- Albee and the absurd: The American drama and The zoo story / B. Way -- Today's dramatists / R.A. Duprey.