50 best plays of the American theatre
By: selected and with a foreword by Clive Barnes ; with individual play introductions by John Gassner.
Contributors: Barnes, Clive, 1927-2008.; Gassner, John, 1903-1967.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
Subjects: American drama -- 20th century.
Other titles: Best plays of the American theatre.; Fifty best plays of the American theatre
Table of contents: title: v. 1.; title: The contrast -- Royall Tyler; title: Uncle Tom's cabin -- George L. Aiken; title: Salvation Nell -- Edward Sheldon; title: "The hairy ape" -- Eugene O'Neill; title: Rain -- John Colton and Clemence Randolph; title: Desire under the elms -- Eugene O'Neill; title: Porgy -- Dorothy and DuBose Heyward; title: The front page -- Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur; title: Street scene -- Elmer Rice; title: Green pastures -- Marc Connelly; title: Men in white -- Sidney Kingsley; title: Tobacco Road -- Jack Kirkland.; title: v. 2.; title: The children's hour -- Lillian Hellman; title: Awake and sing -- Clifford Odets; title: Ethan Frome -- Owen Davis and Donald Davis; title: Bury the dead -- Irwin Shaw; title: You can't take it with you -- Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman; title: High tor -- Maxwell Anderson; title: Golden boy -- Clifford Odets; title: On borrowed time -- Paul Osborn; title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois -- Robert E. Sherwood; title: The matchmaker -- Thornton Wilder; title: The Philadelphia story -- Philip Barry; title: The man who came to dinner -- George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; title: Life with Father -- Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.; title: v. 3.; title: The time of your life -- William Saroyan; title: Arsenic and old lace -- Joseph Kesselring; title: Harvey -- Mary Chase; title: The glass menagerie -- Tennessee Williams; title: State of the union -- Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse; title: Dream girl -- Elmer Rice; title: Born yesterday -- Garson Kanin; title: Medea -- Robinson Jeffers; title: A streetcar named Desire -- Tennessee Williams; title: Mister Roberts -- Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan; title: Death of a salesman -- Arthur Miller; title: The member of the wedding -- Carson McCullers.; title: v. 4.; title: Come back, little Sheba -- William Inge; title: The fourposter -- Jan de Hartog; title: The seven year itch -- George Axelrod; title: The crucible -- Arthur Miller; title: Tea and sympathy -- Robert Anderson; title: The teahouse of the August moon -- John Patrick; title: The dairy of Anne Frank -- Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett; title: Look homeward, angel -- Ketti Frings; title: Two for the seesaw -- William Gibson; title: Oh Dad, poor Dad, Mamma's hung you in the closet and I'm feelin' so sad -- Arthur L. Kopit; title: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- Edward Albee; title: The odd couple -- Neil Simon; title: Fiddler on the roof -- Joseph Stein.