Presents a student guide to ten plays including "The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden", "Our Town," "Here We Are", "The Bear", "Sorry, Wrong Number", "Trifle

Traces the contributions of women to the American theater and offers the texts of five plays that deal with a sick child, a murdered husband, and family life

The emphasis throughout this book, ideal for sixth form and early university students, is on Sophocles' tragic thinking, on the concept of the 'Sophoclean hero'