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Author
Cunliffe, John William
Title
Modern English playwrights : a short history of the English drama from 1825/ by John W. Cunliffe
Publisher / Year
New York : Harper , 1927
Physical description
x p., 1 l., 260 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Contents: 1. Introductory -- 2. The Victorian transition: T.W. Robertson -- W.S. Gilbert -- H.A. Jones -- A.W. Pinero -- Oscar Wilde -- 3. Bernard Shaw -- 4. J.M. Barrie -- 5. John Galsworthy -- 6. H. Granville-Barker -- 7. St. John Hankin -- 8. The Irish drama and J.M. Synge -- 9. St. John Ervine -- 10. Stanley Houghton and other realists: Elizabeth Baker -- Githa Sowerby -- Arnold Bennett -- Allan Monkhouse -- 11. John Masefield and other poet-dramatists: John Drinkwater -- James Elroy Flecker -- Lord Dunsany -- 12. After-war playwrights: A.A. Milne -- C.K. Munro -- Noel Coward -- Sean O'Casey -- A word in review.
Provenance
Illustrated ex libris of Charles Morgan (Lee Elliott). - Presented by Roger Morgan, December 2007
Subject
English drama - 20th century - History and criticism
Location
Main Library , General Reference