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Title: Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911:
Introduction and Bibliography

Author: Montrose J. Moses

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Language: English

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Representative Plays by American Dramatists
Edited, with an Introduction to Each Play

By MONTROSE J. MOSES

1856-1911

Illustrated with Portraits, and
Original Playbills

1921

To BRANDER MATTHEWS

Friend of the American Theatre
To whom all Critics of the Theatre are beholden.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

Bibliographies.

Rip Van Winkle: A Legend of the Catskills. A
Comparative Arrangement with the Kerr Version.
By Charles Burke. 1850

Francesca da Rimini. By George Henry Boker. 1855

Love in '76. An Incident of the Revolution. By Oliver Bell Bunce. 1857

Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy. By Steele Mackaye. 1887

Shenandoah. By Bronson Howard. 1888

In Mizzoura. By Augustus Thomas. 1893

The Moth and the Flame. By Clyde Fitch. 1898

The New York Idea. By Langdon Mitchett. 1906

The Easiest Way. By Eugene Walter. 1909

The Return of Peter Grimm. By David Belasco. 1911

The Authors and Their Plays.

INTRODUCTION

The present volume of "Representative Plays by American Dramatists"
includes many hitherto unpublished manuscripts. These are for the first
time made available in authoritative form to the student of the American
theatre. The Editor has tried consistently to adhere to his original
basis of selection: to offer only those texts not generally in
circulation and not used elsewhere in other anthologies. Exactions of
copyright have sometimes compelled him to depart from this rule. He has
been somewhat embarrassed, editorially, by the ungenerous haste with
which a few others have followed closely in his path, even to the point
of reproducing plays which were known to be scheduled for this
collection. For that re