I: Prologue: The Problem of Political Commitment -- II. The Commited Decade and Its Drama -- Part One: Commitment and the Idea of A Theatre -- III. Theatre Union: Theatre Is a Weapon -- IV. The Group Theatre: Treatre Is Collective Art -- V. The Federal Theatre: Theatre Is Men Working -- Part Two: Commitment and the Playwright -- VI. The Road to Marxist Commitment: John Howard Lawson -- VII. The Road from Marxist Commitment: Clifford Odets -- VIII. S.N.Behrman: No Time for Comedy? -- IX. Elmer Rice and the Seriousness of Drama -- X. The Political Paradox of Maxwell Anderson -- XI. Epilogue: The Problem Today -- A Selected Bibliography
