Chapter 1 Libation Bearers (The Oresteia) (c. 458 BC), Aeschylus; Chapter 2 Oedipus the King(c. 430 BC), Sophocles; Chapter 3 Hippolytus(c. 428 BC), Euripides; Chapter 4 The Spanish Tragedy(c. 1586), Thomas Kyd; Chapter 5 Doctor Faustus(c. 1589), Christopher Marlowe; Chapter 6 Henry VI (Part 1) (1592), William Shakespeare; Chapter 7 Arden of Feversham(c. 1592), Anonymous; Chapter 8 Edward II (c. 1594), Christopher Marlowe; Chapter 9 Edward II (c. 1594), Christopher Marlowe; Chapter 10 Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), William Shakespeare; Chapter 11 Hamlet (1601), William Shakespeare; Chapter 12 A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603), Thomas Heywood; Chapter 13 The Honest Whore (Part 1) (1604), Thomas Dekker; Chapter 14 Volpone (1605), Ben Jonson; Chapter 15 Coriolanus (1607–9), William Shakespeare; Chapter 16 The Revenger’s Tragedy (1607), Cyril Tourneur (attrib.); Chapter 17 The Alchemist (1610), Ben Jonson; Chapter 18 The White Devil(1612), John Webster; Chapter 19 The Changeling (c. 1622), Thomas Middleton, William Rowley; Chapter 20 ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (1625–33), John Ford; Chapter 21 Life is a Dream (1635), Pedro Calderón de la Barca; Chapter 22 The Misanthrope (1666), Jean Baptiste Poquelin; Chapter 23 The Miser (1668) Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin; Chapter 24 Phedra (1677), Jean Racine; Chapter 25 The Country Wife (1675), William Wycherley; Chapter 26 The Rover (Part 1) (1678), Aphra Behn; Chapter 27 The Double Dealer (1694), William Congreve; Chapter 28 Love for Love (1695), William Congreve; Chapter 29 The Relapse (1696), Sir John Vanbrugh; Chapter 30 The Provok’d Wife (1697), Sir John Vanbrugh; Chapter 31 The Constant Couple (1699), George Farquhar; Chapter 32 The Way of the World (1700), William Congreve; Chapter 33 The Rivals (1775), Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Chapter 34 The Critic (1779), Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Chapter 35 Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Oscar Wilde; Chapter 36 A Woman of No Importance (1893), Oscar Wilde; Chapter 37 The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1893), Arthur Wing Pinero; Chapter 38 An Ideal Husband (1895), Oscar Wilde; Chapter 39 Man and Superman (1903), Bernard Shaw; Chapter 40 The Playboy of the Western World (1907), J M Synge; Chapter 41 Heartbreak House (1919), Bernard Shaw; Chapter 42 Woyzeck (1836–7), Georg Büchner; Chapter 43 The Government Inspector (1836), Nikolai Gogol; Chapter 44 A Month in the Country (1850), Ivan Turgenev; Chapter 45 A Doll’s House (1879), Henrik Ibsen; Chapter 46 Miss Julie (1888), August Strindberg; Chapter 47 The Seagull (1896), Anton Chekhov; Chapter 48 The Dance of Death (1900), August Strindberg; Chapter 49 The Cherry Orchard (1904), Anton Chekhov;