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_Foreword_ 3
THE SCANDINAVIAN DRAMA
_Henrik Ibsen_ 11
The Pillars of Society 13
A Doll's House 18
Ghosts 25
An Enemy of Society 34
_August Strindberg_ 43
The Father 45
Countess Julie 51
Comrades 61
THE GERMAN DRAMA
_Hermann Sudermann_ 69
Magda 71
The Fires of St. John 80
_Gerhart Hauptmann_ 87
Lonely Lives 87
The Weavers 98
The Sunken Bell 108
_Frank Wedekind_ 118
The Awakening of Spring 118
THE FRENCH DRAMA
_Maurice Maeterlinck_ 129
Monna Vanna 129
_Edmond Rostand_ 138
Chantecler 138
_Brieux_ 147
Damaged Goods 147
Maternity 161
THE ENGLISH DRAMA
_George Bernard Shaw_ 175
Mrs. Warren's Profession 176
Major Barbara 186
_John Galsworthy_ 196
Strife 197
Justice 208
The Pigeon 215
_Stanley Houghton_ 226
Hindle Wakes 226
_Githa Sowerby_ 235
Rutherford and Son 235
THE IRISH DRAMA
_William Butler Yeats_ 250
Where There Is Nothing 252
_Lenox Robinson_ 261
Harvest 261
_T. G. Murray_ 267
Maurice Harte 267
THE RUSSIAN DRAMA
_Leo Tolstoy_ 275
The Power of Darkness 276
_Anton Tchekhof_ 283
The Seagull 284
The Cherry Orchard 290
_Maxim Gorki_ 294
A Night's Lodging 294
_Leonid Andreyev_ 302
King-Hunger 302