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A Treasury of the theatre : an anthology of great plays from Aeschylus to Hebbel
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- Creator
- revised and adapted for colleges by Philo M. Buck, Jr., John Gassner, H.S. Alberson
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- Language
- English
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- New York : distributed by the Dryden Press; published by Simon and Schuster, [1940]
- [©1940]
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- 2 volumes ; 25 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00335675
- Continuously paged.
- Includes index.
- A revised and adapted version of the 1935 edition edited by Burns Mantle and John Gassner.
- "A representative list of modern plays": [volumes 1] pages 885-896.
- "A representative list of the world's plays": [volumes 2] pages 1654-1660.
- Bibliography: [volumes 1] pages 896-898; [volumes 2] pages 1660-1665.
- v. 1. Ibsen to Odets: Awake and sing! / Clifford Odets. -- The green pastures / Marc Connelly. -- Elizabeth the Queen / Maxwell Anderson. -- What price glory? / Laurence Stallings, Maxwell Anderson. -- Anna Christie / Eugene O'Neill. -- Escape / John Galsworthy. -- Candida / G. B. Shaw. -- Riders to the sea / John Millington Synge. -- The importance of being earnest / Oscar Wilde. -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello. -- Liliom / Ferenc Molnar. -- Cyrano de Bergerac / Edmond Rostand. -- The lower depths / Maksim Gorky. -- The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov. -- The weavers / Gerhart Hauptmann. -- The father / August Strindberg. -- Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen. --
- v. 2. Aeschylus to Hebbel: Maria Magdalena / Friedrich Hebbel. -- Faust, Part I / Goethe. -- The way of the world / William Congreve. -- Phaedra / Jean Racine. -- The misanthrope / Molière. -- The Duchess of Malfi / John Webster. -- Volpone / Ben Jonson. -- Hamlet / William Shakespeare. -- Everyman / Anonymous. -- Abraham and Isaac / Anonymous. -- Shakuntala / Kalidasa. -- Job / Anonymous. -- The menaechmi / Plautus. -- Lysistrata / Aristophanes. -- Electra / Euripides. -- Antigone / Sophocles. -- Agamemnon / Aeschylus