This collection of fifteen plays written between 1890 and 1918 features works by August Strindberg, Paul Margueritte, Maurice Maeterlink, Madame Rachilde, Hugo von Hoffmansthal, Rabindranath Tagore, W. B. Yeats, Stanislaw Przbyszewski, Ramon del Vallen-Inclan, Alexander Blok, Andrei Bely, Tadeusz Micinski, Valerii Briusov, Wallace Stevens, and Leonid Andreyev.