Contemporary one-act plays from nine countries / edited by Percival Wilde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilde, Percival, 1887-1953, editor.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--Collections.

Drama.

Genre:

Collections.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 457 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown, 1936.

Contents:

The United States: Hymn to the rising sun, by P. Green. Mother, by S. Anderson. Till the day I die, by C. Odets. World without end, by P. Wilde.

The British isles: The little theatre movement.

England: Smoke-screens, by H. Brighouse. The lovely miracle, by P. Johnson. Midsummer eve, by J. Drinkwater.

Scotland: The home o' the hill, by J. Corrie.

Ireland: The coiner, by B. Duffy.

Germany: The drama and the Nazis. The next war, by H. Gross.

Austria: Saul, by A. Lernet-Holenia.

Hungary: With discretion, by A. von Orbók. Refund, by F. Karinthy.

France: The post-war drama. Just boys, by P. Géraldy. The bronze lady and the crystal gentleman, by H. Duvernois.

Russia: The corridors of the soul, by N.N. Evréinov.

Notes:

"The foreign-language plays, except for two versions by Virginia and Frank Vernon, have been adapted by the editor."--Introduction.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

OCLC:

2003856