Best plays of the early American theatre; from the beginning to 1916. Edited, with introductions, by John Gassner in association with Mollie Gassner.

Author: Gassner, John, 1903-1967, comp.

Imprint:New York : Crown Publishers, [1967]

Descriptionxlviii, 716 p. : front. ; 25 cm.

Note:The contrast / Rayall Tyler. - Superstition / James N. Barker. - Charles the Second / John Howard Payne and Washington Irving. - Fashion / Anna Cora Mowatt. - Uncle Tom's cabin / George Aiken. - The octoroon / Dion Boucicault. - The Count of Monte Cristo / Charles Fechter. - The mouse-trap / William Dean Howells. - Secret service / William Gillette. - The great divide / William Vaughn Moody. - The New York idea / Langdon Mitchell. - The truth / Clyde Fitch. - The witching hour / Augustus Thomas. - Salvation Nell / Edward Sheldon. - The easiest way / Eugene Walter. - The scarecrow / Percy MacKaye.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. xlvii-xlviii.

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