Table of Contents:
  • pt. I The Modern Theater: Reflections on the life of the American theater : prolegomena.
  • The American theater between the wars
  • Broadway
  • The mysterious present
  • Note on the Academic theater
  • Five contemporary playwrights
  • Three allegorists : Brecht, Wilder, Eliot
  • Joyce's Exiles
  • Don Perlimplín : Lorca's theater-poetry
  • T.S. Eliot's Poetry and drama
  • Boleslavsky's The first six lessons
  • pt. II Shakespeare. Macbeth as the imitation of an action
  • Measure for measure
  • Two comedies
  • pt. III Critical attitudes. "Myth" and the literary scruple
  • The Golden Bowl revisited
  • Kenneth Burke's Grammar of motives
  • Two perspectives on European literature.