An edition of 50 best plays of the American theatre (1969)

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Cover of: 50 best plays of the American theatre by selected and with a foreword by Clive Barnes ; with individual play introductions by John Gassner.
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Crown Publishers

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American drama
Times
20th century

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Table of Contents

v. 1.
The contrast -- Royall Tyler
Uncle Tom's cabin -- George L. Aiken
Salvation Nell -- Edward Sheldon
"The hairy ape" -- Eugene O'Neill
Rain -- John Colton and Clemence Randolph
Desire under the elms -- Eugene O'Neill
Porgy -- Dorothy and DuBose Heyward
The front page -- Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
Street scene -- Elmer Rice
Green pastures -- Marc Connelly
Men in white -- Sidney Kingsley
Tobacco Road -- Jack Kirkland.
v. 2.
The children's hour -- Lillian Hellman
Awake and sing -- Clifford Odets
Ethan Frome -- Owen Davis and Donald Davis
Bury the dead -- Irwin Shaw
You can't take it with you -- Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
High tor -- Maxwell Anderson
Golden boy -- Clifford Odets
On borrowed time -- Paul Osborn
Abe Lincoln in Illinois -- Robert E. Sherwood
The matchmaker -- Thornton Wilder
The Philadelphia story -- Philip Barry
The man who came to dinner -- George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Life with Father -- Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.
v. 3.
The time of your life -- William Saroyan
Arsenic and old lace -- Joseph Kesselring
Harvey -- Mary Chase
The glass menagerie -- Tennessee Williams
State of the union -- Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
Dream girl -- Elmer Rice
Born yesterday -- Garson Kanin
Medea -- Robinson Jeffers
A streetcar named Desire -- Tennessee Williams
Mister Roberts -- Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan
Death of a salesman -- Arthur Miller
The member of the wedding -- Carson McCullers.
v. 4.
Come back, little Sheba -- William Inge
The fourposter -- Jan de Hartog
The seven year itch -- George Axelrod
The crucible -- Arthur Miller
Tea and sympathy -- Robert Anderson
The teahouse of the August moon -- John Patrick
The dairy of Anne Frank -- Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Look homeward, angel -- Ketti Frings
Two for the seesaw -- William Gibson
Oh Dad, poor Dad, Mamma's hung you in the closet and I'm feelin' so sad -- Arthur L. Kopit
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- Edward Albee
The odd couple -- Neil Simon
Fiddler on the roof -- Joseph Stein.

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Other Titles
Best plays of the American theatre., Fifty best plays of the American theatre

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
812.08
Library of Congress
PS634 .A15 1969

The Physical Object

Pagination
4 v. ;

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24199239M
Internet Archive
50bestplaysofame00barnrich
OCLC/WorldCat
16732344

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