[Human Drama]는 윌리엄 셰익스피어 이래의 서양 희곡의 발전사를 추적했다. 셰익스피어의 [햄릿]과 [리처드 2세], 헨릭 입센의
The Wild Duck과 The Master Builder, 안톤 체호프의 The Cherry Orchard, 존 게이의 The Beggar's Opera, R. B. 셰리던의 The
School for Scandal, 오거스트 스트린드베리의 The Ghost Sonata와 A Dream Play, 프리드리히 뒤렌마트의 The Visit, 유진 이오네
스코의 The Chairs, 유진 오닐의 Long Day's Journey into Night과 The Iceman Cometh, 에드워드 올비의 Who? Afraid of Virginia
Woolf? 등이 작품론으로 다루어졌다.

Prologue
1. Death Consciousness in William Shakespeare's Hamlet
2. William Shakespeare's Richard II: A Smashed Mirror for the Renaissance Self-Reflection
3. Victor Turner's Liminality in Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck
4. Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard vs. John Gay's The Beggar's Opera and R. B. Sheridan's The School for Scandal: The
Balance between Illusion and Reality
5. Antonin Artaud's Theater of Cruelty: The Poetry of Space and Gesture in Some Modern Plays?enrik Ibsen's The Master
Builder, August Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata, Friedrich D?renmatt's The Visit, Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs, and August
Strindberg's A Dream Play
6. Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and The Iceman Cometh: Plays about the Human Conditions
7. From the Self-Enclosing Illusion to the Communicative Human Contact in Edward Albee? Who? Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Epilogue
Works Cited
Index