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Twenty best plays of the modern American theatre / edited with an introduction by John Gassner.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Crown Pub., ©1939.Description: xxii, 874 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0517509644
  • 9780517509647
Other title:
  • Best American plays : first series
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 812.508 B561b 19
LOC classification:
  • PS634 .G3
Other classification:
  • 812.508
Contents:
Introduction: An American decade / John Gassner -- Winterset / Maxwell Anderson -- High Tor / Maxwell Anderson -- Idiot's delight / Robert E. Sherwood -- Johnny Johnson / Paul Green -- Green pastures / Marc Connelly -- You can't take it with you / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart -- End of summer / S.N. Behrman -- The animal kingdom / Philip Barry -- Boy meets girl / Bella and Samuel Spewack -- The women / Clare Boothe -- Yes my darling daughter / Mark Reed -- Three men on a horse / George Abbott and J.C. Holm -- The children's hour / Lillian Hellman -- Tobacco Road / Jack Kirkland, from the novel by Erskine Caldwell -- Of mice and men / John Steinbeck -- Dead end / Sidney Kingsley -- Bury the dead / Irwin Shaw -- The fall of the city / Archibald MacLeish -- Golden boy / Clifford Odets -- Stage door / Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman.
Summary: 20 of the best American plays from 1930-1939.
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) PS 634 .G3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 128469

Covers period from 1930-1939.

1st in the series Best American Plays.

2nd series title Best Plays of the modern American theatre.

3rd series- known as Best American plays.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 873-874).

Introduction: An American decade / John Gassner -- Winterset / Maxwell Anderson -- High Tor / Maxwell Anderson -- Idiot's delight / Robert E. Sherwood -- Johnny Johnson / Paul Green -- Green pastures / Marc Connelly -- You can't take it with you / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart -- End of summer / S.N. Behrman -- The animal kingdom / Philip Barry -- Boy meets girl / Bella and Samuel Spewack -- The women / Clare Boothe -- Yes my darling daughter / Mark Reed -- Three men on a horse / George Abbott and J.C. Holm -- The children's hour / Lillian Hellman -- Tobacco Road / Jack Kirkland, from the novel by Erskine Caldwell -- Of mice and men / John Steinbeck -- Dead end / Sidney Kingsley -- Bury the dead / Irwin Shaw -- The fall of the city / Archibald MacLeish -- Golden boy / Clifford Odets -- Stage door / Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman.

20 of the best American plays from 1930-1939.

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