"Even the oldest of the moderns are known in the theatre by two or three pieces rather arbitrarily selected from the corpus of their works. The commercially active repertoire is small and stereotyped....Wherever possible, the repertoire must be broadened. This anthology is a small contribution to such a broadening...." (from the preface by Eric Bentley)

Edited by Eric Bentley

Contents:
- Fantasio by Alfred de Musset
- Danton's Death by Georg Büchner
- La Parisienne by Henry Becque
- Round Dance by Arthur Schnitzler
- The Snob by Cark Sternheim
- Sweeney Agonistes by T. S. Eliot
- The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
- The Love of Don Perlimplin and Belisa in the Garden by Federico Garcia Lorca
- The Infernal Machine by Jean Cocteau
- A Full Moon in March by W. B. Yeats