Author: Frank Shay

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-28

Total Pages: 634

ISBN-13: 9781330450246

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Excerpt from Contemporary One-Act Plays of 1921: American The present collection of short plays must be considered as a supplementary volume to Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays issued early in 1921. The same conditions surrounded its development and completion. The lot of the anthologist is not a happy one. He must either select his plays because of the fame of the authors, or, he must use a trace of critical judgment and include only those plays, regardless of the literary standing of their authors, which he feels are the best that have come to his attention. Whatever his course may be, it is always open to criticism. The editor has read several hundred one-act plays since the previous volume was completed. Indeed he has become so inured to meeting persons who have plays they want published that he is inclined to fly every time a person appears with a manuscript under his arm. So many merely good one-act plays are being written and acted these days the editor early concluded that selecting the best was not so much of a task as eliminating the almost good. In this collection I have ignored individual fame and have selected the best plays I could find. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Contemporary One-Act Plays of 1921 written by Frank Shay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Contemporary One-Act Plays of 1921: American The present collection of short plays must be considered as a supplementary volume to Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays issued early in 1921. The same conditions surrounded its development and completion. The lot of the anthologist is not a happy one. He must either select his plays because of the fame of the authors, or, he must use a trace of critical judgment and include only those plays, regardless of the literary standing of their authors, which he feels are the best that have come to his attention. Whatever his course may be, it is always open to criticism. The editor has read several hundred one-act plays since the previous volume was completed. Indeed he has become so inured to meeting persons who have plays they want published that he is inclined to fly every time a person appears with a manuscript under his arm. So many merely good one-act plays are being written and acted these days the editor early concluded that selecting the best was not so much of a task as eliminating the almost good. In this collection I have ignored individual fame and have selected the best plays I could find. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.