xii, 493 pages 24 cm, \"Act-by-act summaries of 133 representative dramas by modern playwrights.\"--Jacket, Introduction by Evert Sprinchorn: the decline and disappearance of plot -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? / Edward Albee -- Winterset / Maxwell Anderson -- Antigone; Becket, or The honor of God; Ornifle; Thieves' carnival; The waltz of the Toreadors / Jean Anouilh -- The ascent of F6 / W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood -- Quoat-Quoat / Jacques Audiberti -- The admirable Crichton; Dear Brutus; Peter Pan; What every woman knows / J.M. Barrie -- Hotel universe / Philip Barry -- Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett -- The hostage / Brendan Behan -- End of summer / S.N. Behrman -- The Queen and the rebels / Ugo Betti -- Baal; The caucasian chalk circle; Galileo; The good woman of Setzuan; Mother Courage and her children; The threepenny opera / Bertolt Brecht -- R.U.R. / Karel Čapek -- The insect comedy / Karel and Josef Čapek -- Break of noon; The satin slipper; The tidings brought to Mary / Paul Claudel -- The infernal machine; Orpheus / Jean Cocteau -- Blithe spirit / Noel Coward -- him / E.E. Cummings -- The physicist; The visit / Friedrich Dürrenmatt -- Murder in the cathedral / T.S. Eliot -- The Lady's not for burning / Christopher Fry -- Justice / John Galsworthy -- Blood wedding; The house of Bernarda Alba; The shoemaker's prodigious wife / Federico García Lorca -- The blacks / Jean Genêt -- Chronicles of hell / Michel De Ghelderode -- Electra; The enchanted; The madwoman of Chaillot; Ondine; Tiger at the gates / Jean Giraudoux -- The lower depths / Maksim Gorki -- The defeat / Nordahl Grieg -- The rats; The weavers / Gerhart Hauptmann -- The children's hour; The little foxes / Lillian Hellman -- Amédée or How to get rid of it; The chairs; The lesson; Rhinoceros / Eugéne Ionesco -- Ubu roi / Alfred Jarry -- From morn to midnight / Georg Kaiser -- You can't take it with you / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, The circle / Somerset Maugham --...

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Evert Sprinchorn

T. Y. Crowell Co.

New York, 1966, ©1965

"Act-by-act summaries of 133 representative dramas by modern playwrights."--Dust jacket.

xii, 493 pages 24 cm
"Act-by-act summaries of 133 representative dramas by modern playwrights."--Jacket
Introduction by Evert Sprinchorn: the decline and disappearance of plot -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? / Edward Albee -- Winterset / Maxwell Anderson -- Antigone; Becket, or The honor of God; Ornifle; Thieves' carnival; The waltz of the Toreadors / Jean Anouilh -- The ascent of F6 / W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood -- Quoat-Quoat / Jacques Audiberti -- The admirable Crichton; Dear Brutus; Peter Pan; What every woman knows / J.M. Barrie -- Hotel universe / Philip Barry -- Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett -- The hostage / Brendan Behan -- End of summer / S.N. Behrman -- The Queen and the rebels / Ugo Betti -- Baal; The caucasian chalk circle; Galileo; The good woman of Setzuan; Mother Courage and her children; The threepenny opera / Bertolt Brecht -- R.U.R. / Karel Čapek -- The insect comedy / Karel and Josef Čapek -- Break of noon; The satin slipper; The tidings brought to Mary / Paul Claudel -- The infernal machine; Orpheus / Jean Cocteau -- Blithe spirit / Noel Coward -- him / E.E. Cummings -- The physicist; The visit / Friedrich Dürrenmatt -- Murder in the cathedral / T.S. Eliot -- The Lady's not for burning / Christopher Fry -- Justice / John Galsworthy -- Blood wedding; The house of Bernarda Alba; The shoemaker's prodigious wife / Federico García Lorca -- The blacks / Jean Genêt -- Chronicles of hell / Michel De Ghelderode -- Electra; The enchanted; The madwoman of Chaillot; Ondine; Tiger at the gates / Jean Giraudoux -- The lower depths / Maksim Gorki -- The defeat / Nordahl Grieg -- The rats; The weavers / Gerhart Hauptmann -- The children's hour; The little foxes / Lillian Hellman -- Amédée or How to get rid of it; The chairs; The lesson; Rhinoceros / Eugéne Ionesco -- Ubu roi / Alfred Jarry -- From morn to midnight / Georg Kaiser -- You can't take it with you / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
The circle / Somerset Maugham -- Mystery-bouffe / Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky -- The crucible; Death of a salesman; A view from the bridge / Arthur Miller -- Liliom / Ferenc Molnár -- Queen after death / Henry De Montherlant -- Cock-a-doodle dandy; Juno and the paycock; The plough and the stars; Purple dust / Sean O'Casey -- Awake and sing!; The flowering peach; Golden boy; Waiting for Lefty / Clifford Odets -- Desire under the elms; The great god brown; The iceman cometh; Long day's journey into night; Mourning becomes electra; Strange interlude / Eugene O'Neill -- Look back in anger; Luther / John Osborne -- Henry IV; Naked; Right you are, if you think you are; Six characters in search of an author; Tonight we improvise / Luigi Pirandello -- Street scene / Elmer Rice -- The unknown of Arras / Armand Salacrou -- My heart's in the Highlands / William Saroyan -- The devil and the good Lord; Dirty hands; No exit / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Vasco / Georges Schéhadé -- Back to Methuselah; Candida; Heartbreak house; Major Barbara; Man and Superman; Pygmalion; Saint Joan; The simpleton of the unexpected isles / George Bernard Shaw -- Journey's end / R.C. Sherriff -- The petrified forest / Robert Sherwood -- The beggar / Reinhard Johannes Sorge -- Charles XII; The dance of death; A dream play; The father; The ghost sonata; The great highway; Miss Julie; To Damascus, Part I; To Damascus, Part II; To Damascus, Part III / August Strindberg -- The playboy of the western world; Riders to the sea / John Millington Synge -- Man and the masses / Ernst Toller -- The optimistic tragedy / Vsevolod Vishnevski -- Earth-spirit; Pandora's box / Frank Wedekind -- Marat / Peter Weiss -- Our town; The skin of our teeth / Thornton W -- Camino Real; Cat on a hot tin roof; The glass menagerie; A streetcar named Desire / Tennessee Williams -- Four plays for dancers; The words upon the window-pane / William Butler Yeats -- The captain from Köpenick / Carl Zuckmayer

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