Best plays of the early American theatre
Subtitle: from the beginning to 1916.
By: Edited, with introductions, by John Gassner in association with Mollie Gassner.
Contributors: Gassner, Mollie, joint comp.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 716
Subjects: American drama
Notes: Bibliography: p. xlvii-xlviii.
Table of contents: title: The contrast (1787) / Royall Tyler -- Superstition (1824) / James N. Baker -- Charles the Second (1824) / John Howard Payne and Washington Irving -- Fashion (1845) / Anna Cora Mowatt -- Uncle Tom's cabin (1852) / George L. Aiken -- The octoroon (1859) / Dion Boucicault -- The count of Monte Cristo (1883) / Charles Fechter -- The mouse-trap (1889) / William Dean Howells -- Secret Service (1896) / William Gillette -- The great divide (1906) / William Vaughn Moody -- The New York idea (1906) / Langdon Mitchell -- The truth (1907) / Clyde Fitch -- The witching hour (1907) / Augustus Thomas -- Salvation Nell (1908) / Edward Sheldon -- The easiest way (1909) / Eugene Walter -- The scarecrow (1911) / Percy MacKaye.