《新经典高等学校英语专业系列教材：西方戏剧》由四部分组成：戏剧概要介绍、戏剧史纵览、12位重要剧作家及其作品选读和一部完整的剧作赏析，具有如下特点：从基础入手，详略得当地介绍西方戏剧发展的源流；既有对西方戏剧从戏剧理论、创作过程、戏剧史等角度所作的总体介绍，又有对各个时代戏剧发展的细致阐述；既有对西方戏剧作家、作品的整体评述，又有对某个作家及其作品的具体分析；在剧作家及其选篇后提出思考题目，由浅入深，引导读者积极思考。

Part Ⅰ Introduction to Drama
Part Ⅱ A Brief History of Drama
Part Ⅲ Great Playwrights and Their Works
1 Sophocles
Oedipus Rex
2 William Shakespeare
Hamlet
3 Moliere
The Miser
4 Henrik Ibsen
5 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard
6 George Bernard Shaw
Major Barbara
7 Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
Long Day's Woman of Setzuan
8 Bertolt Brecht
The Good Woman of Setzuan
9 Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie
10 Arthur Miller
Death of a Saleman
11 Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
12 Harold Pinter
The Caretaker
Part Ⅳ The Study of One Play
Hedda Gabler
Appendix
Types of Drama and Critical Terms
Selected Bibligraphy