Hands Around
by Arthur Schnitzler | 
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde | 
The Klingon Hamlet
by Lawrence Schoen | 
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare | 
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare | 
Othello
by William Shakespeare | 
King Lear
by William Shakespeare | 
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard | 
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams | 
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare | 
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare | 
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare | 
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett | 
The Odyssey
by Derek Walcott | 
The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare | 
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller | 
The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams | 
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee | 
A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen | 
Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard |
Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), one of the seminal forces in world drama, was also a novelist and practicing physician. His four dramatic works in this volume (La Ronde, Anatol, The Green Cockatoo, and Flirtation) are among the most celebrated plays of the 20th century. Much like his contemporary Sigmund Freud, Schnitzler's work is inextricable from the social and intellectual milieu, which accompanied the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This was the age of the "Viennese Secessionists", exemplified by composers such as Berg, Webern, and Schoenberg, painters Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka, the foundations of modern architecture, and Zionism. To add to the ferment, Freud introduced his theories of sexuality. It was from within this maelstrom that Schnitzler wrote his plays. He wrote with charm and grace and with great compassion for the fraility of humankind. These plays are regularly performed throughout the world and are acclaimed as masterpieces of modern theater. Mueller's translations of plays include works by Brecht, Buchner, Wedekind, Hauptmann, Strindberg, and Sophocles.