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Good Plays for Reading

December 1933 Prof. E. B. Watson
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Good Plays for Reading
December 1933 Prof. E. B. Watson

Besides the obviously familiar plays o£ leading dramatists and such stage successes as "Journey's End" and "Green Pastures" I should recommend to alumni the following from the last decade as significant and readable plays: James Bridie: Tobias and The Angel. Constable, London. Karel Capek: R.U.R. Doubleday, Page, N. Y. Adam the Creator. Allen and Unwin, London. Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne: Wings Over Europe. Covicie-Friede, N. Y. Sidney Howard: Ned McCobb's Daughter. Scribner's, N. Y. The Silver Cord. Scribner's, N. Y. S. Ansky: The Dybbuk. Boni & Liveright, N. Y. Maxwell Anderson: Saturday's Children. Longman's, Green. Elizabeth the Queen. Longman's, Green. A. A. Milne: The Ivory Door. Chatto and Windus, London. Ferenc Molnar: Liliom. Boni and Liveright. Paul Green: In Abraham's Bosom. Samuel French, N. Y. The House of Connelly. Samuel French, N. Y. Luigi Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of anAuthor,. E. P. Dutton, N. Y. Henry IV. E. P. Dutton, N. Y. Sean O'Casey: Juno and the Paycock. Macmillan. The Plough and the Stars. Macmillan. Dennis Johnston: Moon of the Yellow River. Jonathan Cape, London. Granville-Barker: His Majesty. Little Brown, Boston.