Design for Drama features a number of plays that are adapted from well-known American short stories and poems. The stories represented are ‘The Marriages’ by Henry James, ‘The Furnished Room’ by O. Henry, ‘The Devil’ and ‘Tom Walker’ by Washington Irving, ‘The Black Cat’ by Edgar Allan Poe, ‘A Horseman in the Sky’ by Ambrose Bierce, and ‘Richard Cory’ by Edwin Arlington Robinson. Design for Drama is recommended for high-intermediate and advanced learners of English.