Preface to First Edition Preface to Second Edition 1 The absent voice: American drama and the critic 2 Eugene O'Neill's Endgame 3 Tennessee Williams: the theatricalising self 4 Arthur Miller: the moral imperative 5 Edward Albee: journey to apocalypse 6 A Broadway interlude 7 Sam Shepard: imagining America 8 David Mamet: all true stories 9 The performing self 10&n