Introduction -- The long Christmas dinner / T. Wilder -- The ping-pong players / by W. Saroyan -- The tridget of Greva [and] Abend di anni nouveau / R. Lardner -- Three travelers watch a sunrise / W. Stevens -- Santa Claus / E. E. Cummings -- The birthday / by P. Goodman -- Benito Cereno / R. Lowell -- George Washington crossing the Delaware / K. Koch -- Hot buttered roll / R. Drexler -- Gallows humor / J. Richardson -- The falling sickness / R. Edson -- Poem-plays / by R. Krauss -- What happened / G. Stein -- Flower / R. Whitman -- Meat joy / C. Schneemann -- Gas / A. Kaprow and C. Frazier -- Afterword

1. American drama -- 20th century