Best plays of the early American theatre : from the beginning to 1916 / edited, with introductions, by John Gassner in association with Mollie Gassner
Imprint
New York : Crown Publishers, [1967]
Descript
xlviii, 716 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
SUMMARY
Contains sixteen plays including Salvation Nell, The octoroon, The Count of Monte Cristo, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and The scarecrow
CONTENT
The contrast (1787) / Royall Tyler -- Superstition (1824) / James N. Barker -- Charles the Second (1824) / John Howard Payne and Washington Irving -- Fashion (1845) / Anna Cora Mowatt -- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) / George L. Aiken -- The octoroon (1859) / Dion Boucicault -- The Count of Monte Cristo (1883) / Charles Fechter -- The mouse-trap (1889) / William Dean Howells -- Secret service (1896) / William Gillette -- The great divide (1906) / William Vaughn Moody -- The New York idea (1906) / Langdon Mitchell -- The truth (1907) / Clyde Fitch -- The witching hour (1907) / Augustus Thomas -- Salvation Nell (1908) / Edward Sheldon -- The easiest way (1909) / Eugene Walter -- The scarecrow (1911) / Percy MacKaye