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Twenty-five best plays of the modern American theatre : Early series / edited with an introduction by John Gassner.

Contributor(s): Series: Best American plays series ; 2.Publication details: New York : Crown Publishers, c1949.Description: xxviii, 756 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0517503905
  • 9780517503904
Other title:
  • 25 best plays of the modern American theatre
  • Best plays of the modern American theatre
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 812.08
  • 812.5082
LOC classification:
  • PS634 .G32
Other classification:
  • 812.508
Contents:
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.
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Summary: 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.
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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.

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