Twenty-five best plays of the modern American theatre / edited with an introduction by John Gassner. - New York, N.Y. : Crown Publishers, 1949. - xxviii, 756 p. - Early Series. .

Contents : The hairy ape--Eugene O'Neill / Desire under the elms--Eugene O'Neill / Paris bound--Philip Barry / The road to Rome--Robert E. Sherwood / The second man--S.N. Behrman / The front page--Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur / They knew what they wanted--Sidney Howard / Berkeley square--John L. Balderston / What price Glory?--Anderson and Stallings / Beggar on horseback--Kaufman and Connelly / Craig's wife--George Kelly / Street scene--Elmer Rice / Saturday's children--Maxwell Anderson / Broadway--Philip Dunning and George Abbott / Porgy--Dorothy and DuBose Heyward / Strictly Dishonorable--Preston Sturges / Machinal--Anderson and Hickerson / Gods of the lightning--Anderson and hickerson / Ile--Eugene O'Neil / Trifles--Susan Glaspell / White dresses--Paul Green / The clod--Lewis Beach / Minnie field--E.P. Conkle / Poor Aubrey--George Kelly / Aria Da Capo--Edna St. Vincent Millay.


American drama--20th century.