Author: Bennett Cerf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Pocket of Modern American Plays
The Pocket Book of Modern American Plays
Author: Bennett Cerf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Modern American Plays
Author: George Pierce Baker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Modern American Plays
The Pocket Book of Modern American Plays. Edited, and With an Introd. by Bennett Cerf
Author: Bennett Cerf
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre
Modern American Plays
Modern American Plays
Author: George P. Baker
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330367865
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Excerpt from Modern American Plays: Collected With Introduction The plays here printed are not, of course, the only five which might have been selected. From the many possible American plays of the last ten years these five have been chosen because decided success has been theirs, and because today they are worthy of professional revival. There is, however, a third test which has excluded many plays otherwise desirable, - the selections made must show the greatest possible variety. Romance, played very successfully in the United States for a season or two, was revived by Miss Doris Keane in London in War time. Its "run" was over a thousand nights, one of the longest on record. The central situation, an unsophisticated young man infatuated with an actress, is undeniably not new. We have seen it in Nance Oldfield, and more recently in Barrie's Rosalind, indeed, in a dozen other plays. What lifts Romance free of triteness is just what produced its unusual success, the characterization of Mme. Cavallini. So inseparably is the part associated with Miss Keane, who first acted it, that it is impossible exactly to distinguish the contributions of the author and the actress to the final effect of perfect characterization. After all, the drama is a collaborative art, and no role - even Hamlet or Lear - is seen at its best till an actor of such sensitiveness and matured technique plays it that not merely what the text obviously says, but its slightest implications are revealed. In Mme. Cavallini, as played, author and actress worked in perfect accord. The heroine of Romance quickly wins, and thereafter holds, the sympathy of the audience. 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.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330367865
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Excerpt from Modern American Plays: Collected With Introduction The plays here printed are not, of course, the only five which might have been selected. From the many possible American plays of the last ten years these five have been chosen because decided success has been theirs, and because today they are worthy of professional revival. There is, however, a third test which has excluded many plays otherwise desirable, - the selections made must show the greatest possible variety. Romance, played very successfully in the United States for a season or two, was revived by Miss Doris Keane in London in War time. Its "run" was over a thousand nights, one of the longest on record. The central situation, an unsophisticated young man infatuated with an actress, is undeniably not new. We have seen it in Nance Oldfield, and more recently in Barrie's Rosalind, indeed, in a dozen other plays. What lifts Romance free of triteness is just what produced its unusual success, the characterization of Mme. Cavallini. So inseparably is the part associated with Miss Keane, who first acted it, that it is impossible exactly to distinguish the contributions of the author and the actress to the final effect of perfect characterization. After all, the drama is a collaborative art, and no role - even Hamlet or Lear - is seen at its best till an actor of such sensitiveness and matured technique plays it that not merely what the text obviously says, but its slightest implications are revealed. In Mme. Cavallini, as played, author and actress worked in perfect accord. The heroine of Romance quickly wins, and thereafter holds, the sympathy of the audience. 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.
Nine Modern American Plays
Author: Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages :
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Modern American Plays
Author: Frederic G. Cassidy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description