1913. From the play by Daniel D. Carter. Illustrated with scenes from the play. The book begins: There was a sudden, tense silence in the courtroom as the judge on the bench lifted his head, and stared steadfastly at the prisoner in the dock. There was all the dignity of justice in the spare, erect form of the old man who was to voice the law's decree, a dignity emphasized by the grave face, in which the usual kindly lines were now blotted out ...

1914. Sir James Matthew, Baronet Barrie a Scottish journalist, playwright, and children's book writer who became world famous with his play and story about Peter Pan, the boy who lived in Never Land, had a war with Captain Hook, and would not grow up. Contents: Pantaloon; The Twelve-Pound Look; Rosalind; and The Will. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ...

1910. Motherlove is one of a collection of three of the famed writer's mini-dramas: The Stronger, Motherlove, and The Pelican. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ...

1922. Generally agreed to be one of the most significant forces in the history of the American theater, O'Neill is a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. This volume contains: the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna Christie; The Hairy Ape; and The First Man, which were written between the years of 1918 to 1924. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ...

1923. Russian author, considered one of the greatest of all novelists. Tolstoy's major works include War and Peace and Anna Karenina. This volume contains, in addition to the two dramas, The Power of Darkness and The Fruits of Enlightenment, published in the lifetime of Tolstoy, two other complete Plays-The Live Corpse (known as The Man Who Was Dead and presented with success on the Stage under the title of Redemption) and two unfinished pieces, ...

1908. With illustrations from scenes in the play. Although his first book was about English romance, Newton Booth Tarkington, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, for The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams, came to be known for his comical (and almost cynical) style of the Lost Generation that characterized the 1920's. Tarkington collaborated with Harry Leon Wilson of Ruggles of Red Gap fame on eleven plays, the most famous being The Man from Home. ...

1921. Hecht, American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, novelist, regarded by some as the Shakespeare of Hollywood, he received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films. Erik Dorn is his first novel. It sexual explicitness brought notoriety to Hecht. The book begins; An old man sat in the shadows of the summer night. From a veranda chair he looked at the stars. He wore a white beard, ...

I have written this play and these poems for countless reasons. May it serve as a guide to the direction less and as a companion to all of those who suffered the same feelings as I had. Academics who are unique and struggling to fit into the modern mould ideally will treasure "Wildest Dreams of a Chandelier Mansion" as though my story is also their own. Undoubtedly, the story is my finest brainstorming about older days coming led with the painful ...

This introduction to the ever-evolving tradition of American theater includes 12 works from such noted writers as Horton Foote, William Saroyan, Shel Silverstein, Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, and Tennessee Williams. Original. ...

The theme of A Fair Quarrel, is the nature of honour and the deceptiveness of reputation, and the play's three levels of action - main plot, subplot, and independent clown scenes - combine to expose the spuriousness of any external code of conduct. ...