LITTLE, BROWN.

Modern Drama Series. 9 vols. Edited by E. J. Björkman.

Little, Brown also publishes a "Contemporary Drama Series" in 4 volumes (other volumes in preparation), which is wholly criticism.

NORMAN, REMINGTON.

The Vagabond Plays. 6 plays.

Plays in Collected Volumes

Collections of plays by various authors are increasingly numerous. These provide the text of the play, often with the addition of much critical and biographical material. Anthologies are a prime aid to the study of the historical development of the drama.

BAKER, GEORGE P. 1866

Modern American Plays. Harcourt. 1920.

Five plays by Thomas, Belasco, Sheldon, Anspacher and Massey. (See also p. 210, 224)

COHEN, HELEN LOUISE. Editor. 1882

One Act Plays by Modern Authors. Harcourt. 1921.

DICKINSON, THOMAS H. Editor. 1877—

The Chief Contemporary Dramatists. 2 vols. Houghton.

1915 and 1921.

Twenty complete plays in the first series and eighteen in the second from Continental Europe, Great Britain and America. (See also pp. 222, 225)

ELIOT, SAMUEL A., JR. 1893—

Little Theatre Classics. Little. Vol. I., II., III. and IV. 1918–22.

LEONARD, S. A. Editor.

Atlantic Book of Modern Plays. Atlantic. 1921.
Contains 15 one-act plays.

LEWIS, B. ROLAND.

Contemporary One-Act Plays. Scribner. 1921.
Contains 18 plays.

MATTHEWS, BRANDER. Editor. 1852

The Chief European Dramatists. Houghton. 1916.
From 500 B. C. to 1879 A. D.

(See also p. 123, 222, 224, 269, 326)

MAYORGA, MARGARET GARDNER.

Representative One-Act Plays by American Authors. Little.

1919.

MOSES, MONTROSE J. Editor. 1878

Representative British Dramas; Victorian and Modern. Little.

1918.

20.

Twenty-one Plays from Bulwer-Lytton to Lord Dunsany. Representative Plays of American Dramatists. Dutton. 1918

Vol. I, 1765-1819. To be completed in 3 vols.

Representative Continental Dramas: Revolutionary and Transitional. Little. 1923.

Fifteen plays from eight countries.

Representative One-Act Plays by Continental Authors. Little.

1922.

A Treasury of Plays for Children. Little. 1921. (See also p. 226)

NEILSON, WILLIAM ALLAN. Editor. 1869—

(except Shakespeare).

The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists Dramatists Houghton. 1911. (See also p. 114, 205, 208)

MANTLE, BURNS. Editor. 1873

The Best Plays of 1919-1920 etc. yearly. Small.

PIERCE, JOHN ALEXANDER. Editor.

The Masterpieces of Modern Drama, English and American. Doubleday. 1915.

The Masterpieces of Modern Drama, Foreign. Doubleday. 1915.

Abridged in narrative form with extracts from the chief scenes.

QUINN, ARTHUR HOBSON. Editor. 1875

Representative American Plays. Century. 1917.

Twenty-five plays tracing the development of our native drama from the beginning to the present day.

SCHAFER, B. L. Editor.

A Book of One-Act Plays. Bobbs. 1922.
Contains 10 plays.

Twenty Contemporary One-Act Plays. 1922. Appleton.
A Treasury of Plays for Women. Little. 1922.

A Treasury of Plays for Men. Little. 1923.

Plays requiring only women or only men to cast.

One Thousand and One Plays for the Little Theatre. (An index and guide.) 1923. Appleton.

SHAY, FRANK and PIERRE LOVING.

Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays. 1920. Appleton.
Chosen from contemporary writers all over the world.

SMITH, A. M.

Short Plays by Representative Authors. Macmillan. 1920. Contains 12 plays.

TATLOCK, JOHN S. P. 1876 and ROBERT G. MARTIN,

editors.

Representative English Plays. Century.

Twenty-four plays from the Middle Ages to Oscar Wilde.

Questions

1. What are the plays of the "47 Workshop"?

2. Name two anthologies of American plays.

3. What is the best book of criticism on American drama?

4. What series of plays consists entirely of American plays?

5. Give the titles of four books on the technique of play-writing.

6. Who has written a book on the Insurgent Theater? The Twentieth Century Theater? The People's Theater? The Little Theater?

7. What playwrights have written books on the theater?

& What is the most extensive history of the theater?

9. What book outlines a great many plots of plays?

10. Who publishes a year-book of plays?

11. Name an anthology of plays for children.

12. Name three anthologies of one-act plays.

13. Name two anthologies of American plays.

14. What anthologies by Tatlock and by Matthews cover a long period of time?

15. Name a book of criticism of modern English playwrights.

CHAPTER XVIII

CONTINENTAL DRAMA OF TODAY

THE amount of Continental drama available in English translation is creditably large, and the translations are, on the whole, adequate renderings of the originals. Some few translators have achieved distinction in their work; notably, William Archer with his translation of Ibsen; Edwin Björkman with Strindberg and Bjørnson; Ludwig Lewisohn with Hauptmann; and above all, Arthur Symons with his difficult poetic translations of d'Annunzio's "Francesca da Rimini" and Hofmannsthal's "Electra."

"The Continental Drama of To-Day" by Barrett H. Clark (Holt) is a book of outlines which forms an excellent guide to foreign drama. The book of the greatest value in the study of contemporary drama, foreign or English, is Frank W. Chandler's "Aspects of Modern Drama" (Macmillan). This is virtually an encyclopedia of plots. The bibliographical lists, the critical valuations, and the absorbing interest of the narratives make it one of the most readable of books. Many of the translations listed are included in T. H. Dickinson's "Chief Contemporary Dramatists" 1st and 2nd series, Houghton.

Dramatic Works. Edited and translated by William Archer. 11 vols. Scribner.

1. Feast at Solhoug, 1856; Lady Inger, 1855; Love's Comedy, 1862.

2. Vikings, 1861; Pretenders, 1864.

3. Brand, 1866.

4. Peer Gynt, 1867.

5. Emperor and Galilean, (2 parts), 1873.

6. League of Youth, 1869; Pillars of Society, 1877.