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During the years 1880 to 1945, American theatre grew up, moving from entertainment-driven motives and melodramatic formulas to serious confrontations with issues of its time and to an experimentation with forms that would allow those confrontations to be frank and earnest.

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From 1880 to 1956, when John Osborne transformed the British theater world with Look Back in Anger, British playwrights made numerous lasting contributions and provided a foundation for the innovations of dramatists during the latter half of the 20th century.

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The year 1956 marked a point when British drama and theater fell into the hands of a group of young playwrights who revolutionized the stage.

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Never achieving the acclaim of Eugene O'Neill, who came before, or Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, who followed, Odets bridged the gap between earlier melodramatic theatre and the mature post-World War II drama on the American stage, creating rich and varied drama well into the 1950s.

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Irish playwrights such as Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw and John Millington Synge have made enormous contributions to world drama. This reference work provides detailed entries for 32 Irish playwrights active from 1880 to 1995, supplying extensive bibliographical information.