THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE
OF THE MODERN DRAMA

CONTENTS

Foreword

THE SCANDINAVIAN DRAMA
Henrik Ibsen: The Pillars of Society; A Doll's House; Ghosts; An Enemy of Society
August Strindberg: The Father; Countess Julie; Comrades
THE GERMAN DRAMA
Hermann Sudermann: Magda; The Fires of St. John
Gerhart Hauptmann: Lonely Lives; The Weavers; The Sunken Bell
Frank Wedekind: The Awakening of Spring
THE FRENCH DRAMA
Maurice Maeterlinck: Monna Vanna
Edmond Rostand: Chantecler
Brieux: Damaged Goods; Maternity
THE ENGLISH DRAMA
George Bernard Shaw: Mrs. Warren's Profession; Major Barbara
John Galsworthy: Strife; Justice; The Pigeon
Stanley Houghton: Hindle Wakes
Githa Sowerby: Rutherford and Son
THE IRISH DRAMA
William Butler Yeats: Where There Is Nothing
Lenox Robinson: Harvest
T. G. Murray: Maurice Harte
THE RUSSIAN DRAMA
Leo Tolstoy: The Power of Darkness
Anton Tchekhof: The Seagull; The Cherry Orchard
Maxim Gorki: A Night's Lodging
Leonid Andreyev: King-Hunger