Complex sentence: A Tragedy in Two Acts (1936), by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, was the second play in the Auden-Isherwood collaboration and a major contribution to English poetic drama in the 1930s.
Split into simpler sentences: A Tragedy in Two Acts, by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, was the second play in the Auden-Isherwood collaboration, first published in 1936. It was a major contribution to English poetic drama in the 1930s.