Modern(IST) Drama: Essays in Criticism is a casebook of ideas and arguments about Western modern drama, as well as the avant-garde kind. The author gathers a uniquely wide-ranging selection of original essays whose subjects span the late nineteenth century, most of the twentieth, and reach forward into the twenty-first. He thereby provides access to the thinking behind much of the most stimulating playwriting (and performance) the modernists had to offer, in addition to supplying guidelines to understanding current drama’s most adventurous developments.