The plays: The girl in the coffin -- The blue sphere -- Laughing gas -- In the dark -- The spring recital -- The light in the window -- "Old Ragpicker" -- The dream -- Phantasmagoria -- The court of progress -- The voice -- The hand of the potter -- Textual commentary -- Emendations in the copy-texts -- Appendices: The anaesthetic revelation -- Textual changes in the revised second edition of The hand of the potter -- Production of Dreiser's plays.