Twenty-five best plays of the modern American theatre : Early series / edited with an introduction by John Gassner.
Series: Best American plays series ; 2.Publication details: New York : Crown Publishers, c1949.Description: xxviii, 756 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0517503905
- 9780517503904
- 25 best plays of the modern American theatre
- Best plays of the modern American theatre
- 812.08
- 812.5082
- PS634 .G32
- 812.508
- committed to retain 20170930 20421231 HathiTrust https://www.hathitrust.org/shared_print_program
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Books | Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) | PS 634 .G32 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 128470 |
Browsing Academic Resource Center at Levitt shelves, Shelving location: General Stacks (LOWER Level) Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
PS 634 .C4169 Plays of our time / | PS 634 .C418 Six American plays for today / | PS 634 .G3 Twenty best plays of the modern American theatre / | PS 634 .G32 Twenty-five best plays of the modern American theatre : Early series / | PS 634 .K38 1942 Six plays / | PS 634 .M66 1979 The most popular plays of the American theatre : ten of Broadway's longest-running plays / | PS 634 .S57 Six modern American plays / |
Includes bibliographical references (page 756).
Introduction: The happy years, the advancing theatre / John Gassner -- "The hairy ape" / Eugene O'Neill -- Desire under the elms / Eugene O'Neill -- What price glory? / Laurence Stallings, Maxwell Anderson -- They knew what they wanted / Sidney Howard -- Beggar on horseback / George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly -- Craig's wife / George Kelly -- Broadway / Philip Dunning, George Abbott -- Paris bound / Philip Barry -- The road to Rome / Robert E. Sherwood -- The second man / S.N. Behrman -- Saturday's children / Maxwell Anderson -- Porgy / Dorothy and Du Bose Heyward -- The front page / Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur -- Machinal / Sophie Treadwell -- Gods of the lightning / Maxwell Anderson, Harold Hickerson -- Street scene / Elmer Rice -- Strictly dishonorable / Preston Sturges -- Berkeley Square / John L. Balderston -- The clod / Lewis Beach -- Trifles / Susan Glaspell -- Ile / Eugene O'Neill -- Aria da capo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Poor Aubrey / George Kelly -- White dresses / Paul Green -- Minnie Field / E.P. Conkle -- A memorandum on other productions in New York City -- Supplementary list of plays.
Covers American theater's formative period, 1916-1929, with 25 complete plays, biographical and production data, and a survey of the period's drama and dramatists. This volume supplements the two previously published collections: Twenty best plays of the modern American theatre (1929-1939), first series and Best plays of the modern American theatre (1939-1946), second series.
committed to retain 20170930 20421231 HathiTrust PU
There are no comments on this title.