Four Modern Verse Plays by E. Martin Browne (editor)

"The Family Reunion," thought by many critics to be Eliot's best play, sets out to interpret in a modern setting the scheme of retribution of an Aeschylean tragedy.

"A Phoenix Too Frequent," the first of Christopher Fry's plays to win acclaim, retells in charming verse Petronius's story of the swiftly consoled widow.

Charles Williams portrays "Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury" as a lovable, pitiable human being crushed by spiritual conflict and historical circumstance.

Donagh Macdonagh's "Happy as Larry" is a comic fantasy of Irish rural life -- its style and rhythm are derived from the popular street ballads of Dublin.