Digests of great American plays
Subtitle: complete summaries of more than 100 plays from the beginnings to the present.
Series: A Crowell reference book
Publisher: Crowell
Published: 1961
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
Subjects: American drama -- Stories, plots, etc.
Table of contents: title: Ponteach [Pontiac] / Rogers -- The Prince of Parthia / Godfrey --  The Americans roused / Sewall --  The group / Warren -- The contrast / Tyler -- Occurrences of the times / Anonymous -- André / Dunlap -- The Indian princess / Barker -- She would be a soldier / Noah -- Wall-Street; or Ten minutes before three / Mead -- The tragedy of superstition / Barker -- The Forest Rose / Woodworth -- Metamora / Stone -- The gladiator / Bird -- The Drunkard; or, The fallen saved / Smith --  Fashion; or, Life in New York Ritchie -- The Bucktails; or, Americans in England / Paulding -- A glance at New York / Baker -- Uncle Tom’s Cabin / Aiken -- Francesca da Rimini / Boker -- The Octoroon / Boucicault -- Rip Van Winkle Jefferson, Burke, Boucicault -- Horizon / Daly -- Davy Crockett / Murdoch -- The merry Christmas of the old woman who lived in a shoe / Baker -- The Mulligan Guard Ball / Harrigan -- The old homestead / Thompson, Ryer -- Margaret Fleming / Herne -- The American / James --  A Trip to Chinatown / Hoyt --  The Albany depot / Howells -- The great diamond robbery / Alfriend, Wheeler --  Secret Service / Gillette -- Madame Butterfly / Belasco, Long -- The climbers / Fitch -- the girl of the golden west / Belasco -- No mother to guide her / Mortimer --  The great divide / Moody -- The New York idea / Mitchell -- The witching hour / Thomas -- The easiest way / Walter -- Naughty Marietta / Herbert, Young -- The scarecrow / Mackaye -- The boss / Sheldon -- Peg o’ my heart / Manners --  The Henrietta / Howard -- Anna Christie / O’Neill -- Abie’s Irish rose / Nichols -- The hairy ape / O’Neill -- An American grandfather / Smith -- Beggar on horseback / Kaufman, Connelly -- Hell-bent fer heaven / Hughes -- Sue ‘em / Brosius -- What price glory? / Stallings, Anderson -- Desire under the elms / O’Neill -- Processional / Lawson -- The silver cord / Howard -- The front page / Hecht, MacArthur -- Giants in the earth / Job -- Holiday / Barry -- Street scene / Rice -- The green pastures / Connelly -- Of thee I sing / Kaufman, Ryskind, G. and I. Gershwin -- Biography / Behrman -- Ah, Wilderness! / O’Neill --  Tobacco Road / Kirkland -- The Petrified Forest / Sherwood -- Dead end / Kingsley -- Porgy and Bess / Gershwins, Heyward --  So red the rose / Young, Stallings, Anderson, Mayer -- Waiting for Lefty / Odets -- Winterset / Anderson -- You can’t take it with you / Kaufman, Hart -- Of mice and men / Steinbeck -- Abe Lincoln in Illinois / Sherwood -- “. . . One-third of a nation. . .“ / Arent -- Our Town / Wilder -- Life with father / Lindsay, Crouse -- The little foxes / Heilman --The time of your life / Saroyan -- The male animal / Thurber, Nugent -- Lady in the dark / Hart, Gershwin, Well -- Long day’s journey into night / O’Neill -- Native son / Wright, Green -- Watch on the Rhine / Heilman -- Oklahoma! / Rodgers, Hammerstein --  The glass menagerie / Williams -- Dark of the moon / Richardson, Berney -- The medium / Menotti -- Command decision / Haines -- Kiss me, Kate / Porter. B. and J. Spewack -- Death of a salesman / Miller -- New faces of 1952 / Anderson, Graham, et al -- Picnic / Inge -- The teahouse of the August Moon / Patrick -- The diary of Anne Frank / Goodrich, Hackett -- A hatful of rain / Gazzo -- Inherit the wind / Lawrence, Lee -- Patterns / Serling -- J. B. / MacLeish -- Sunrise at Campobello / Schary --  A raisin in the sun / Hansberry.