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Contemporary drama : European, English and Irish, American plays selected and edited by E. Bradlee Watson and Benfield Pressey.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York, Scribner [1966]Description: xvii, 1177 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.82
LOC classification:
  • PN6112 .W27
Incomplete contents:
Contents: European plays. A Doll's House / Henrik Ibsen -- The Fossils / Francois de Curel -- The Beaver coat / Gerhart Hauptmann -- Light-O'-Love / Arthur Schnitzler -- Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen -- Pelleas and Melisande / Maurice Maeterlinck -- Magda / Hermann Sudermann -- Cyrano de Bergerac / Edmond Rostand -- Uncle Vanya / Anton P. Chekhov -- The Dream play / August Strindberg -- Night's lodging, or the lower depths / Maxim Gorki -- The Passion flower / Jacinto Benavente -- The Cherry orchard / Anton P. Chekhov -- He who gets slapped / Leonid Andreyev -- Man and the masses / Ernst Toller -- R. U. R. (Rossum's universal robots) / Karel Capek -- Henry IV / Luigi Pirandello; English and Irish plays. Riders to the sea / John Millington Synge -- Hyacinth Halvey / Lady Gregory -- What every woman knows / J. M. Barrie -- Mid-channel / Arthur Wing Pinero -- The Glittering gate / Lord Dunsany -- Justice / John Galsworthy -- Mr. Pim passes by / A. A. Milne -- The Circle / W. Somerset Maugham -- Loyalties / John Galsworthy -- Dear Brutus / J. M. Barrie -- Juno and the paycock / Sean O'Casey; American plays. The Emperor Jones / Eugene O'Neill -- Processional / John Howard Lawson -- Beggar on horseback / George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly -- The Silver cord / Sidney Howard -- "The Hairy Ape" / Eugene O'Neill -- Street scene / Elmer L. Rice -- Hotel Universe / Philip Barry -- Elizabeth the Queen / Maxwell Anderson -- Abe Lincoln in Illinois / Robert Emmet Sherwood.

Includes bibliography (p. 1167-1173) and "List of illustrations to the plays": p. 1174-1177.

Contents: European plays. A Doll's House / Henrik Ibsen -- The Fossils / Francois de Curel -- The Beaver coat / Gerhart Hauptmann -- Light-O'-Love / Arthur Schnitzler -- Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen -- Pelleas and Melisande / Maurice Maeterlinck -- Magda / Hermann Sudermann -- Cyrano de Bergerac / Edmond Rostand -- Uncle Vanya / Anton P. Chekhov -- The Dream play / August Strindberg -- Night's lodging, or the lower depths / Maxim Gorki -- The Passion flower / Jacinto Benavente -- The Cherry orchard / Anton P. Chekhov -- He who gets slapped / Leonid Andreyev -- Man and the masses / Ernst Toller -- R. U. R. (Rossum's universal robots) / Karel Capek -- Henry IV / Luigi Pirandello; English and Irish plays. Riders to the sea / John Millington Synge -- Hyacinth Halvey / Lady Gregory -- What every woman knows / J. M. Barrie -- Mid-channel / Arthur Wing Pinero -- The Glittering gate / Lord Dunsany -- Justice / John Galsworthy -- Mr. Pim passes by / A. A. Milne -- The Circle / W. Somerset Maugham -- Loyalties / John Galsworthy -- Dear Brutus / J. M. Barrie -- Juno and the paycock / Sean O'Casey; American plays. The Emperor Jones / Eugene O'Neill -- Processional / John Howard Lawson -- Beggar on horseback / George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly -- The Silver cord / Sidney Howard -- "The Hairy Ape" / Eugene O'Neill -- Street scene / Elmer L. Rice -- Hotel Universe / Philip Barry -- Elizabeth the Queen / Maxwell Anderson -- Abe Lincoln in Illinois / Robert Emmet Sherwood.

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