Awake and singing : 7 classic plays from the American Jewish repertoire / edited and with an introduction by Ellen Schiff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schiff, Ellen, 1932-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American drama--Jewish authors.

American drama.

Jews--Drama.

Jews.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 636 pages ; 18 cm

Other Title:

Awake & singing

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Mentor, [1995]

Summary:

This first volume in a two-volume anthology presents the history and evolution of Jewish plays (1920-1960), from the social realism and political concerns of Elmer Rice and Clifford Odets to the urban wit of Neil Simon and Wendy Wasserstein. Many of these plays are unavailable in any other format. (Drama)

Contents:

Introduction / by Ellen Schiff

Welcome stranger (1920) / Aaron Hoffman

Counsellor-at-law (1931) / Elmer Rice

Awake and sing! (1935) / Clifford Odets

Morning star (1940) / Sylvia Regan

Home of the brave (1945) / Arthur Laurents

The cold wind and the warm (1958) / S.N. Behrman

The tenth man (1959) / Paddy Chayefsky.

Contains:

Hoffman, Aaron, 1880-1924. Welcome stranger.

Rice, Elmer, 1892-1967. Counsellor-at-law.

Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963. Awake and sing!.

Regan, Sylvia. Morning star.

Laurents, Arthur. Home of the brave.

Behrman, S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel), 1893-1973. Cold wind and the warm.

Chayefsky, Paddy, 1923-1981. Tenth man.

ISBN:

0451628691 :

OCLC:

32069246