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Representative Modern Plays, American

by George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Sidney Coe Howard, S. N. Behrman, Eugene O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson, Clifford Odets, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller

memory playsautobiographical dramaFamilyAmerican dramaFictionDramaYoung menHuman relations

Contains: Comedy. Expressionistic satire. Beggar on horseback / George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly ; Realistic folk comedy. The late Christopher Bean / Sidney Howard ; The comedy of manners. Biography / S.N. Behrman -- Serious drama. Naturalistic tragedy. Mourning becomes Electra / by Eugene O'Neill ; Romantic drama of history. Valley Forge / Maxwell Anderson ; The proletarian drama. Waiting for Lefty / Clifford Odets ; Domestic drama. Glass Menagerie / Tennessee Williams ; Middle-class tragedy. Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller.

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Book data: Open Library