附註:pt. I The Modern Theater: Reflections on the life of the American theater -- Prolegomena -- The American theater between the wars -- Broadway -- The mysterious present -- Note on the Academic theater -- Five contemporary playwrights -- Three allegorists: Brecht, Wilder, Eliot -- Joyce's Exiles -- Don Perlimplin: Lorca's theater-poetry -- T.S. Eliot's Poetry and Drama -- Boleslavsky's the First Six Lessons -- pt. II Shakespeare : Macbeth as the Imitation of an Action -- Measure for Measure -- Two Comedies -- pt. III Critical Attitudes : "Myth" and the literary scruple -- The Golden Bowl revisited -- Kenneth Burke's Grammar of Motives -- Two perspectives on European Literature.