Playwrights present problems of everyday life
Subtitle: a book of excerpts from well-known dramas
By: edited by H.H. Giles and Robert J. Cadigan
Contributors: Cadigan, Robert J. , ed
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Published: 1942
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: American drama; College and school drama; Drama in education
Notes: Bibliography: p. [275]-290.
Table of contents: title: What makes life worth the living? ;; title: High Tor  -- Maxwell Anderson; title: Where can the heart's desire be found? ;; title: Beyond the horizon  -- Eugene O'Neill; title: Can money buy a happy life? ;; title: You can't take it with you  -- Moss Hart -- and -- George S. Kaufman; title: Do manners influence people? ;; title: Etiquette  -- Paul Halvey; title: Is honesty the best policy? ;; title: The enemy of the people  -- Henrik Ibsen; title: Should grown-up children be mothered? ;; title: The silver cord  -- Sidney Howard; title: Is affection to be measured by words? ;; title: King Lear  -- William Shakespeare; title: Do you dare be different? ;; title: The misfit  -- William Foote Whyte; title: What is subversive teaching? ;; title: The teacher  -- Fred Eastman; title: What kinds of schools does our democracy need? ;; title: On our way  -- Jean Byers; title: Equal opportunities for all? ;; title: Les Miserables  -- Alvin Childress; title: Must every generation fight its own fight for freedom? ;; title: The American way -- George S. Kaufman-- and-- Moss Hart; title: Common rights for all humanity or special rights for some? ;; title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois  -- Robert E. Sherwood; title: Old people, poor people: what hope can they live by? ;; title: Of mice and men  -- John Steinbeck; title: What is the cause of and what can cure juvenile delinquency? ;; title: Dead end  -- Sidney Kingsley; title: What things are worth living and dying for? ;; title: Bury the dead  -- Irwin Shaw; title: Is violence the only way out of some problems? ;; title: The gentle people  -- Irwin Shaw; title: Must freedom from prejudice be more than word deep? ;; title: Arrangement in black and white  -- Dorothy Parker; title: What causes bad relations between employer and laborer? ;; title: The Weavers  -- Gerhardt Hauptmann; title: In a changing world what causes fear of change? ;; title: Yellow Jack  -- Sidney Howard; title: Is war an inevitable part of human life? ;; title: There shall be no night  -- Robert E. Sherwood; title: Can dictatorship destroy the religious spirit by force? ;; title: The miracle of the Danube -- Maxwell Anderson; title: Does freedom of assembly mean that anybody should be allowed to hold a meeting in a free country? ;; title: His honor the mayor  -- Orson Welles; title: Elijah Lovejoy died for freedom of the press. Does it matter today? ;; title: An American Crusader  -- Robert E. Sherwood; title: "We all declare for liberty," but what does it mean? Is there a place in America for "a guy that says what he thinks"? ;; title: One more free man -- James Boyd.