Clive Bloom is Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University, UK. Widely published and Series Editor of Palgrave Macmillan's Crime Files series, he is the author of Violent London and Riot City, amongst many other titles.

• Preface and Acknowledgements - Introduction; C.Bloom - Susan Glaspell; B.Ozieblo - Eugene O'Neill; E.Mottram - Clifford Odets; M.Woolf - Tennessee Williams; M.Lilly - Arthur Miller; C.Banfield - Imamu Amiri Baraka; A.R.Lee - Neil Simon; M.Woolf - Sam Shepard; M.J.Hayes - Marsha Norman; D.Grantley - David Mamet; E.J.Esche - Contemporary Feminist Theatre; C.Canning - Index