Eugene O'Neill: the long quest, by J. L. Halio.--Six characters in search of an author and Desire under the elms: what O'Neill did not learn from Europe, by W. E. Taylor.--Clifford Odets: from influence to affluence, by R. B. Shuman.--Maxwell Anderson: traditionalist in a theatre of change, by W. E. Taylor.--Comedy of manners 1927-1939, by W. Embler.--Through a glass menagerie darkly: the world of Tennessee Williams, by S. Kahn.--Arthur Miller: Aristotelian canons in the twentieth century drama, by A. A. Stambusky.--Three verse playwrights and the American fifties, by D. Gerstenberger.--What happens in Who's afraid ...? By M. Halperen.--The novelist as playwright: Baldwin, McCullers, and Bellow, by L. Phillips.--Off-Broadway and the new realism, by B. F. Dukore.--Bibliographical notes (p. 175-186).