Representative American plays
Subtitle: from 1767 to the present day.
Edition: 7th ed., rev. and enl.
Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts
Published: 1953
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1248
Subjects: American drama
Table of contents: title: The prince of Parthia (1767) / Thomas Godfrey -- The contrast (1787) / Royall Tyler -- André (1798) / William Dunlap -- Superstition (1824) / James Nelson Barker -- Charles the Second (1824) / John Howard Payne, Washington Irving -- Pocahontas, or, The settlers of Virginia (1830) / George Washington Parke Custis -- The broker of Bogota (1834) / Robert Montgomery Bird -- Tortesa the usurer (1839) / Nathaniel Parker Willis -- Fashion (1845) / Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie -- Francesca di Rimini (1855) / George Henry Boker -- The octoroon, or, Life in Louisiana (1865) / Dion Boucicault -- Rip Van Winkle (1865) / as played by Joseph Jefferson -- Hazel Kirke (1880) / Steele MacKaye -- Shenandoah (1889) / Bronson Howard -- Margaret Fleming (1890) / James A. Herne -- Secret service (1896) / William Gillette -- Madame Butterfly (1900) / David Belasco, John Luther Long -- The girl with the green eyes (1902) / Clyde Fitch -- The New York idea (1906) / Langdon Mitchell -- The witching hour (1907) / Augustus Thomas -- The faith healer (1909) / William Vaughn Moody -- The scarecrow (1910) / Percy MacKaye -- The boss (1911) / Edward Sheldon -- He and she (1911) / Rachel Crothers -- Beyond the horizon (1920) / Eugene O'Neill -- Sun-up (1923) / Lula Vollmer -- The silver cord (1926) / Sidney Howard -- Paris bound (1927) / Philip Barry -- Winterset (1935) / Maxwell Anderson -- Command decision (1947) / William Wister Haines -- South Pacific (1949) Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, II, Joshua Logan.