Best American Plays 6th Series

by John Gassner

Book Overview

Features 17 American plays from 1963 to 1967 presented in the New York theatre. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517509512
• ISBN13: 9780517509517
• Release Date: July 1971
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 594 Pages
• Weight: 2.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Great reading in one book!

The Best American Plays is a great reference tool with great reading. The SIXTH SERIES features complete plays from 1963 to 1967. Along with each play is an introduction with historic info about the production itself and the authors. To have a book filled with what is considered the best of that era is wonderful in that it includes insight to plays one may not have ever heard of or read. Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running is brilliant dialogue in FOUR ONE-ACT plays. The theme is marital. And James Baldwin's most popular play, well structured and uniquely formed is about a racist murder in a mixed town Blues For Mister Charlie. Included is Eugene O'Neill's "Hughie" which is more like a short story or a one-man play because the main character delivers lengthy monologues about his friend Hughie, who, ironically is not a character in the play. Erie is an illusionist of human survival. Again, it's O'Neill's great observation into humanity. The others: This includes some popular ones, like Edward Albee's Tiny Alice * Bill Manhoff's Owl and the Pussycat * Neil Simon's Odd Couple * Tom Jones The Fantasticks * Robert Lowell's Benito Cereno * and James Goldman's Lion in Winter. LeRoi Jones' The Toilet; Lorraine Hansberry's Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. Saul Bellow's The Last Analysis; * Martin Duberman In White America * William Hanley's Slow Dance on the Killing Ground * William Alfred's Hogan's Goat. This shall be a great reading experience for anyone who loves to read plays. ....MzRizz