50 best plays of the American theatre
(1969)

Nonfiction

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Call Numbers:
812.08/FIFTY v. 1
812.08/FIFTY v. 2
812.08/FIFTY v. 3
812.08/FIFTY v. 4

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PUBLISHED
New York : Crown Publishers, [1969]
©1969
DESCRIPTION

4 volumes ; 25 cm

LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Collection of entertainment from earliest professionally produced plays in America to O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson, Miller and Albee. All plays complete

CONTENTS

v. 1.

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 -- 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.

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 -- Matchmaker / Thornton Wilder -- Philadelphia story / Philip Barry -- Man who came to dinner / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart -- Life with Father / Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse

v. 3.

Time of your life / William Saroyan -- Arsenic and old lace / Joseph Kesselring -- Harvey / Mary Chase -- 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 -- Member of the wedding / Carson McCullers

v. 4.

Come back, little Sheba / William Inge -- Fourposter / Jan de Hartog -- Seven year itch / George Axelrod -- Crucible / Arthur Miller -- Tea and sympathy / Robert Anderson -- Teahouse of the August moon / John Patrick -- Diary 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 -- Odd couple / Neil Simon -- Fiddler on the roof / Joseph Stein

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