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Author:

Gassner, John, 1903-1967, ed.

Title:

A treasury of the theatre.

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Publisher:

Simon and Schuster

Copyright Date:

1951

Description:

3 v. 26 cm.

Subject:

Drama--Collections.
Teatro.

Other Authors:

Mantle, Burns, 1873-1948, ed. Treasury of the theatre.

Notes:

"Revised and expanded from the original [1935 ed.] ... edited by Burns Mantle and John Gassner." Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A month in the country / The classic age. Agamemnon / Ivan Turgenev. Oedipus the King / Sophocles ; The Trojan women / Euripides ; The frogs / Aristophanes ; The Menaechmi / Plautus ; The brothers / Terence -- The Oriental theatre. Shakuntala / Kalidasa ; Sotoba Komachi / Kwanami Kiyotsugu -- The Medieval drama. Abraham and Isaac / author unknown ; The second shepherd's play / author unknown ; Everyman / author unknown -- The Renaissance. The tragical history of Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe ; Hamlet / William Shakespeare ; Volpone / Ben Johnson ; The duchess of Malfi / John Webster ; Fuente Ovejuna / Lope de Vega -- The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The misanthrope / Molière ; Phaedra / Jean Racine ; The way of the world / William Congreve ; The school for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- The Romantic and early Realistic drama. Faust, part one / J.W. von Goethe ; No trifling with love / Alfred de Musset ; Danton's death / Georg Büchner ; The inspector / Nikolai Gogol ; Maria Magdalena / Friedrich Hebbel ; A month in the country / Ivan Turgenev.
Departures from realism. The flies / Realism and naturalism. Ghosts / Jean-Paul Sartre. Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen ; The father / August Strindberg ; The vultures / Henry Becque ; The weavers / Gerhart Hauptmann ; The tenor / Frank Wedekind ; The power of darkness / Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy ; The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov ; The lower depths / Maxim Gorki -- Departures from realism. The intruder / Maurice Maeterlinck ; Cyrano de Bergerac / Edmond Rostand ; There are crimes and crimes / August Strindberg ; Liliom / Ferenc Molnar ; Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello ; R.U.R. / Karel Capek ; Blood wedding / Federico García Lorca ; From The private life of the master race / Bertolt Brecht ; The flies / Jean-Paul Sartre.
Modern American drama. Death of a salesman / Modern drama in England and Ireland. The importance of being earnest / Arthur Miller. Candida / George Bernard Shaw ; The admirable Crichton / James M. Barrie ; Escape / John Galsworthy ; The workhouse ward / Lady Gregory ; Riders to the sea / John Millington Synge ; The plough and the stars / Sean O'Casey ; The circle / W. Somerset Maugham ; Journey's end / R.C. Sherriff ; Blithe spirit / Noel Coward -- Modern American drama. Anna Christie / Eugene O'Neill ; The hairy ape / Eugene O'Neill ; What price glory? / Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson ; Elizabeth the queen / Maxwell Anderson ; The green pastures / Marc Connelly ; Our town / Thornton Wilder ; Golden boy / Clifford Odets ; The little foxes / Lillian Hellman ; My heart's in the highlands / William Saroyan ; The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams ; Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller.

LCCN:

51008220

Locations:

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

HUAX887 -- Southwestern Community College Library - Creston (Creston)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)

TPPB062 -- Schroeder Public Library (Keystone)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

PWAX296 -- Southeastern Community College - West Burlington - Yohe Memorial Library (West Burlington)