Twenty Five Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre: Early Series (1949)

by John Gassner (Editor)

Other authors: George Abbott (Contributor), Maxwell Anderson (Contributor), John L. Balderston (Contributor), Philip Barry (Contributor), Lewis Beach (Contributor) — 21 more, S. N. Behrman (Contributor), E. P. Conkle (Contributor), Marc Connelly (Contributor), Philip Dunning (Contributor), Susan Glaspell (Contributor), Paul Green (Contributor), Ben Hecht (Contributor), Dorothy Heyward (Contributor), DuBose Heyward (Contributor), Harold Hickerson (Contributor), Sidney Howard (Contributor), George S. Kaufman (Contributor), George Kelly (Contributor), Charles MacArthur (Contributor), Edna St. Vincent Millay (Contributor), Eugene O'Neill (Contributor), Elmer Rice (Contributor), Robert E. Sherwood (Contributor), Laurence Stallings (Contributor), Preston Sturges (Contributor), Sophie Treadwell (Contributor)

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Covers American theater's formative period, 1916-1929, with 25 complete plays, biographical and production data, and a survey of the period's drama and dramatists. This volume supplements the two previously published collections: Twenty best plays of the modern American theatre (1929-1939), first series and Best plays of the modern American theatre (1939-1946), second series.… (more)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Gassner, John	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Abbott, George	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Anderson, Maxwell	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Balderston, John L.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Barry, Philip	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Beach, Lewis	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Behrman, S. N.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Conkle, E. P.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Connelly, Marc	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Dunning, Philip	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Glaspell, Susan	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Green, Paul	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hecht, Ben	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Heyward, Dorothy	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Heyward, DuBose	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Hickerson, Harold	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Howard, Sidney	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Kaufman, George S.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Kelly, George	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
MacArthur, Charles	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Millay, Edna St. Vincent	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
O'Neill, Eugene	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Rice, Elmer	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sherwood, Robert E.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Stallings, Laurence	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sturges, Preston	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Treadwell, Sophie	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill

Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill

What Price Glory? by Maxwell Anderson

They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard

Beggar on Horseback by George S. Kaufman

Craig's Wife by George Kelly

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Covers American theater's formative period, 1916-1929, with 25 complete plays, biographical and production data, and a survey of the period's drama and dramatists. This volume supplements the two previously published collections: Twenty best plays of the modern American theatre (1929-1939), first series and Best plays of the modern American theatre (1939-1946), second series.

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