Chief contemporary dramatists
Subtitle: twenty plays from the recent drama of England, Ireland, America, Germany, France, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, and Russia.
By: Selected and edited by Thomas H. Dickinson ...
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1922
Place of publication: Boston; New York [etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 676
Subjects: Drama -- Collections.
Notes: "Fifteenth impression." First edition published 1915.
On cover: First series.
The scarecrow, by Percy MacKaye.--The weavers, by Gerhart Hauptmann, tr. by Mary Morison.--The vale of content, by Hermann Sudermann, tr. by W.E. Leonard.--The red robe, by Eugène Brieux, tr. by F.O. Reed.--Know thyself, by Paul Hervieu, tr. by Barry Cerf.--Pélléas and Mélisande, by Maurice Maeterlinck, tr. by Richard Hovey.--Beyond human power, by Bjornstjerne Björnson, tr. by L.M. Hollander.--The father, by August Strindberg, tr. by N. Erichsen.--The cherry orchard by Anton Tchekhov, tr. by George Calderon.
Appendix: Authors and plays. Notes on the production of plays. A reading list in contemporary dramatists. A working book list in contemporary drama. Index of characters.
Table of contents: title: Lady Windermeres̓ fan, by Oscar Wilde.; title: The second Mrs. Tanqueray, by A.W. Pinero.; title: Michael and his lost angel, by H.A. Jones.; title: Strife, by John  Galsworthy.; title: The Madras house, by Granville Barker.; title: The hour-glass, by W.B. Yeats.; title: Riders to the sea, by J.M. Synge.; title: The rising of the moon, by Lady Gregory.; title: The truth, by Clyde Fitch.; title: The great divide, by W.V. Moody.; title: The witching hour, by Augustus Thomas.