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Best American plays : third series, 1945-1951 / ed. with an introduction by John Gassner. - New York : Crown Publishers, [1952]. - xxviii, 707 p. ; 25 cm.

Second series, published 1947, has title: Best plays of the modern American theatre

Introduction : The mid-century theatre, a reprise with variations / John Gassner --
Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller --
A streetcar named Desire / Tennessee Williams --
The iceman cometh / Eugene O'Neill --
The member of the wedding / Carson McCullers --
The autumn garden / Lillian Hellman --
Come back, little Sheba / William Inge --
All my sons / Arthur Miller --
Detective story / Sidney Kingsley --
Billy Budd / Louis O. Coxe and Robert Chapman --
Medea / Robinson Jeffers --
Mister Roberts / Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan --
State of the Union / Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse --
Darkness at noon / Sidney Kingsley --
Anne of the thousand days / Maxwell Anderson --
Bell, book, and candle / John van Druten --
The moon is blue / F. Hugh Herbert --
Summer and smoke / Tennessee Williams --
Supplementary list of American non-musical plays (p. 703-705) --American musical plays of the period (p. 705) --Bibliography (p. 706-707).

LCCN: 57012830

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American drama--20th century.

Dewey Class. No.: 812.08