Contents: Evolution of British drama -- Mysteries, miracles, and moralities -- The Renaissance -- Elizabethan drama -- Shakespeare -- Stuart drama -- Restoration drama -- Eighteenth-century drama -- Nineteenth-century drama -- The revival of British drama : 1890-1914 -- George Bernard Shaw -- Drama from war to war : 1914-1945 -- Postwar transition : 1945-1955 -- The new waves : 1956-1967 -- Beyond the censor : 1968+.