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American drama and its critics : a collection of critical essays / Edited and with an introduction by Alan S. Downer.

Downer, Alan S. (Alan Seymour), 1912-1970 (Author). Herne, James A., 1839-1901 (Added Author). Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 (Added Author). Eaton, Walter Prichard, 1878-1957 (Added Author). Huneker, James, 1857-1921 (Added Author). Benchley, Robert, 1889-1945 (Added Author). Young, Stark, 1881-1963 (Added Author). Nathan, George Jean, 1882-1958 (Added Author). Parker, H. T. (Added Author). Lawson, John Howard, 1894-1977 (Added Author). Goldstein, Malcolm (Added Author). Wall, Vincent. (Added Author). Fergusson, Francis (Added Author). Bentley, Eric, 1916- (Added Author). Ganz, Arthur F., 1928- (Added Author). Popkin, Henry (Added Author). Driver, Tom F. (Tom Faw), 1925- (Added Author). Brustein, Robert Sanford, 1927- (Added Author).

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Physical Description: xxi, 258 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1965]

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Art for truth's sake in the drama / James A. Herne -- Some new American plays / William Dean Howells -- Our infant industry / Walter Prichard Eaton -- David Belasco / James Gibbons Huneker -- The musical theater / Robert Benchley -- The apron string in our theater / Stark Young -- Eugene O'Neill / George Jean Nathan -- Green grow the lilacs; hotel universe / H. T. Parker -- The law of conflict / John Howard Lawson -- Clifford Odets and the found generation / Malcolm Goldstein -- Maxwell Anderson the last anarchist / Vincent Wall -- James's idea of dramatic form / Francis Fergusson -- The American drama 1944-1954 / Eric Bentley -- The desperate morality of the plays of Tennesse Williams / Arthur Ganz -- Arthur Miller: the strange encounter / Henry Popkin -- What's the matter with Edward Albee? / Tom F. Driver -- Why American plays are not literature / Robert Brustein --