Introduction : The mid-century theatre, a reprise with variations / J. Gassner
Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller
Streetcar named Desire / Tennessee Williams
Iceman cometh / Eugene O'Neill
Member of the wedding / Carson McCullers
Autumn garden / Lillian Hellman
Come back, little Sheba / William Inge
All my sons / Arthur Miller
Detective story / Sidney Kingsley
Billy Budd / Louis O. Coxe and Robert Chapman
Mister Roberts / Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan
State of the Union / Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
Darkness at noon / Sidney Kingsley
Anne of the thousand days / Maxwell Anderson
Bell, book, and candle / John van Druten
Moon is blue / F. Hugh Herbert
Summer and smoke / Tennessee Williams
Supplementary list of American non-musical plays (p. 703-705)
American musical plays of the period (p. 705)
Bibliography (p. 706-707).
