Twenty best plays of the modern American theatre - Gassner, John 1903-1967 (New York Crown Publishers INC., 1939)
Introduction -- Winterset / Maxwell Anderson -- High Tor /Maxwell Anderson -- Idiot's Delight / Robert E. Sherwood -- Johnny Johnson / Paul Green -- Green Pastures /Marc Connelly -- You can't take it with you / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart -- End of summer /S.N. Behrman -- The Animal kingdom / Philip Barry -- Boy meets girl / Bella and Samuel Spewack -- The women /Clare Boothe -- Yes my darling daughter / Mark Reed -- Three men on a horse /George Abbott and J.C. Holm -- The Children's hour /Lillian Hellman -- Tobacco Road / Mack Kirkland and Erskine Caldwell -- Of mice and men / John Steinbeck --Dead end / Sidney Kingsley -- Bury the dead / Irwin Shaw -- The Fall of the city / Archibald MacLeish -- Golden boy/Clifford Odets -- Stage door / Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman.
Covers period from 1930-1939
1st in the series Best American Plays
2nd series title Best Plays of the modern American theatre
3rd series- known as Best American plays
Includes bibliographical references (pages 873-874)
Keywords: American drama -- 20th century