Gassner, John

Dust jacket title: Best American plays : fifth series, 1958-1963. A collection of 17 plays of American theater from 1957 to 1963.

Contains an alphabetically arranged guide to national drama, playwrights, plays, and genres of drama, and examines them as literature, rather than as theatrical events, and includes terminology, biographies, critical evaluations, contents of plays, and more than 350 photographs and line drawings.

Presents a chronological selection of sixteen early American plays, covering the years between 1787 and 1911, including "Salvation Nell, " "The Octoroon, " "The Count of Monte Cristo, " "Uncle Tom's Cabin, " and "The Scarecrow.".

Clarence--Rain--The adding machine-Green grow the lilacs--The house of Connelly--Children of darkness-Biography--On borrowed time--(etc.).

Contains sixteen plays including "Salvation Nell, " "The octoroon, " "The Count of Monte Cristo, " "Uncle Tom's Cabin, " and "The scarecrow.".

A collection of seventeen plays of American theatre from 1951 to 1957.