Book excerpt: Series one. Fantasio / Alfred de Musset -- Danton's death / Georg Buchner -- La Parislenne / Henry Becque -- Round dance / Arthur Schnitzler -- The snob / Carl Sternheim -- Sweeney Agonistes / T.S. Ellot -- The threepenny opera / Bertolt Brecht -- The love of Don Perlimplin and Belisa in the garden / Federico Garcia Lorca -- The infernal machine / Jean Cocteau -- A full moon in March / William Butler Yeats -- Series two. Jest, satire, irony / Christian Grabbe -- Easy money / Alexander Ostrovsky -- The epidemic / Octave Mirabeau -- The Marquis of Keith / Frank Wedekind -- Him / e.e. cummings -- Venus and Adonis / André Obey -- Electra / Jean Giraudoux -- The king and the duke / Francis Fergusson -- The dark tower / Louis MacNeice -- Galileo / Bertolt Brecht -- Series three. Leonce and Lena / Georg Büchner -- A door should be either open or shut / Alfred de Musset -- Thérèse Raquin / Emile Zola -- The magistrate / Arthur W. Pinero -- Anatol / Arthur Schnitzler -- Dr. Knock / Jules Romain -- Saint Joan of the stockyards / Bertolt Brecht -- Intimate relations / jean Cocteau -- Cecile, or the school for fathers / Jean Anouilh -- The Cretan woman / Robinson Jeffers.