Representative Modern Plays
Subtitle: American
By: Robert Warnock
Contributors: Kaufman, George S. (George Simon), 1889-1961; Connelly, Marc, 1890-1980; Howard, Sidney Coe, 1891-1939; Behrman, S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel), 1893-1973; O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953; Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959; Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963; Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983; Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005
Series: Key Editions
Publisher: Scott, Foresman and Company
Published: 1952
Place of publication: Chicago, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 758
Copyright date: 1952
Subjects: American drama
Other titles: Beggar on horseback.; Late Christopher Bean.; Biography.; Mourning becomes Electra.; Valley Forge.; Waiting for Lefty.; Glass menagerie.; Death of a salesman.
Notes: "Plays by the authors in this book": p. [752]-758.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [748]-751).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Modern American drama; title: Comedy. Expressionistic satire: Beggar on horseback / by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly ; Realistic folk comedy: The late Christopher Bean / by Sidney Howard ; The comedy of manners: Biography / by S.N. Behrman; title: Serious drama. Naturalistic tragedy: Mourning becomes Electra / by Eugene O'Neill ; Romantic drama as history: Valley Forge / by Maxwell Anderson ; The proletarian drama: Waiting for Lefty / by Clifford Odets ; Domestic drama: The glass menagerie / by Tennessee Williams ; Middle-class tragedy: Death of a salesman / by Arthur Miller.