When complete, Twentieth-Century Drama will contain 2,600 published plays from throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present day. It currently contains over 1,550 play texts by 165 principal authors from North America, Britain and Ireland, India, Africa, Australia and the Caribbean. The collection’s contents range from canonical authors such as George Bernard Shaw, Langston Hughes, Sean O’Casey, Noël Coward, Eugene O’Neill and Thornton Wilder, to off-Broadway experimentation and South African township theatre.
