The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009. The major playwrights and their works cover in this volume include:* David Rabe: The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, Sticks and Bones, and Streamers, * Sam Shepard: Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, and True West, * Ntozake Shange: For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, Boogie-Woogie Landscapes, and Spell #7, * Richard Foreman: Vertical Mobility, Rhoda in Potatoland, and Madness and Tranquility (My Head Was a Sledgehammer).