American playwrights, 1918-1938
Subtitle: the theatre retreats from reality.
By: With a pref. by John Gassner.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Dramatists, American -- 20th century; Theater -- United States
Notes: Reprint of the 1938 ed., with a new pref. by Eleanor Flexner.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- Sidney Howard -- S. N. Behrman -- Maxwell Anderson -- Eugene O’Neill -- Comedy : George S. Kaufman, George Kelly, Rachel Crothers, Philip Barry, Robert E. Sherwood -- The new realism -- Conclusion.