More One-Act Plays by Modern Authors
Author | : Helen L. Cohen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 1981-03-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780897601528 |
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Author | : Helen L. Cohen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 1981-03-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780897601528 |
Author | : Helen Louise Cohen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marsh Cassady |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill/Glencoe |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
The one-act play occupies a special niche in the history of modern theatre, attracting major talents like Eugene O'Neill and Susan Glaspell, Terence Rattigan, James M. Barrie, and J. M. Synge, Dorothy Parker and George S. Kaufman. In this collection, 'An Introduction to Modern One-Act Plays, ' Marshall Cassady, veteran writer and teacher, has assembled seventeen complete one-acters by these and other famous writers.
Author | : Helen Louise Cohen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : One-act plays |
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Author | : Booth Tarkington |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1592241867 |
This fine selection of 20th century plays includes contributions from Robert Emmons Rogers ("The Boy Will"), Booth Tarkington ("Beauty and the Jacobin"), Ernest Dowson ("The Pierrot of the Minute"), Oliphant Down ("The Maker of Dreams"), Percy MacKaye ("Gettysburg"), A.A. Milne ("Wurzel-Flummery"), Harold Brighouse ("Maid of France"), Lady Gregory ("Spreading the News"), Jeannette Marks ("Welsh Honeymoon"), John Millington Synge ("Riders to the Sea"), Lord Dunsany ("A Night at an Inn"), Stark Young ("The Twilight Saint"), Lady Alix Egerton ("The Masque of the Two Strangers"), Maurice Maeterlinck ("The Intruder"), Josephine Preston Peabody ("Fortune and Men's Eyes"), and John Galsworthy ("The Little Man"). All of these plays may be staged free of charge in the United States (and possible in other countries--check your local copyright laws for details).
Author | : Bennett Cerf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
The playwrights range from Strindberg to Coward & Saroyan in the anthology that also includes biographical sketches.
Author | : Tennessee Williams |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780811216203 |
Thirteen previously unpublished short plays now available for the first time.
Author | : Helen ed Cohen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : One-act plays |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Deb Bert |
Publisher | : Meriwether Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
This latest volume in a series of short play anthologies compiled by Deb and Norman Bert provides roles for almost any mix of students in an acting class. The plays range in mood from serious and heavy to dark or satiric comedy to farce. The heart of the book includes fifteen scripts for two actors. Also included are five monologues and five three-character plays. The playwrights are icons of the American avante garde, writers who have contributed much to regional theatre over recent years. An excellent resource for classrooms and festival competition use.
Author | : Helen Louise Cohen |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2018-05-05 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780484247849 |
Excerpt from One Act Plays The one-act play is a new form of the drama and more emphatically a new form of literature. Its possibilities began to attract the attention of European and American writers in the last decade of the nineteenth century, those years when so many dramatic traditions lapsed and so many precedents were established. It is significant that the Oldest play in the present collection is Maeterlinck's The Intruder, published in 1890. The history of this new form is of necessity brief. Before its vogue became general, one-act plays were being presented 'in vaudeville houses in this country and were being used as curtain raisers in London theatres for the purpose of marking time until the late-dining audiences should arrive. With the exception of the famous Grand Guignol Theatre in Paris, where the entertainment for an evening might consist of sev eral one-act plays, all of the hair-raising, blood-curdling variety, programs composed entirely of one-act plays were rare. Sir James Matthew Barrie is usually credited with being the first in England to write one-act plays intended to be grouped in a single production. A program of this character has been un common in the commercial theatre in America, but three of Barrie's one-act plays, constituting a single program, have met with enthusiastic response from American audiences. There are two new developments in the history of the theatre that have encouraged and promoted the writing of one act plays: the one is the Repertory Theatre abroad and the other is the Little Theatre movement on both sides of the At lantic. The repertory of the Irish Players, for example, is composed largely of one-act plays, and American Little Theatres are given over almost exclusively to the one-act play. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.