Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments IV
3. Preface IX
4. Introduction XI
5. Contents XV
6. PART ONE. Commercial Drama
7. I. The Legacy of Henry Arthur Jones 3
8. II. Barrett, the Bible, and the Big Shows 24
9. III. Sentimental Supernaturalism 38
10. IV. A Doctrine of Substitution 51
11. PART TWO. Church Drama
12. V. Up from Everyman 93
13. VI. Canterbury, Chichester, and the Religious Drama Society 107
14. VII. Laurence Housman and John Masefield 122
15. VIII Charles Williams and Dorothy Sayers 142
16. PART THREE: THE POST-WAR YEARS
17. IX. T. S. Eliot and Christopher Fry 183
18. X. The Mercury Poets 226
19. XI. Commercial Drama: A Reprise 243
20. XII. The Church Circuit 255
21. XIII. The Division and the Prospect 266
22. Appendix 277
23. BIBLIOGRAPHY 294
24. Index 305