50 best plays of the American theatre / [electronic resource] Best plays of the American theatre. Fifty best plays of the American theatre / selected and with a foreword by Clive Barnes ; with individual play introductions by John Gassner.. — New York : : Crown Publishers,, c1969.. — 4 v. ; 25 cm.
v. 1. : The contrast / : Uncle Tom's cabin / : Salvation Nell / : "The hairy ape" / : Rain / : Desire under the elms / : Porgy / : The front page / : Street scene / : Green pastures / : Men in white / : Tobacco Road / Royall Tyler -- George L. Aiken -- Edward Sheldon -- Eugene O'Neill -- John Colton and Clemence Randolph -- Eugene O'Neill -- Dorothy and DuBose Heyward -- Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur -- Elmer Rice -- Marc Connelly -- Sidney Kingsley -- Jack Kirkland. v. 2. : The children's hour / : Awake and sing / : Ethan Frome / : Bury the dead / : You can't take it with you / : High tor / : Golden boy / : On borrowed time / : Abe Lincoln in Illinois / : The matchmaker / : The Philadelphia story / : The man who came to dinner / : Life with Father / Lillian Hellman -- Clifford Odets -- Owen Davis and Donald Davis -- Irwin Shaw -- Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman -- Maxwell Anderson -- Clifford Odets -- Paul Osborn -- Robert E. Sherwood -- Thornton Wilder -- Philip Barry -- George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart -- Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. v. 3. : The time of your life / : Arsenic and old lace / : Harvey / : The glass menagerie / : State of the union / : Dream girl / : Born yesterday / : Medea / : A streetcar named Desire / : Mister Roberts / : Death of a salesman / : The member of the wedding / William Saroyan -- Joseph Kesselring -- Mary Chase -- Tennessee Williams -- Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse -- Elmer Rice -- Garson Kanin -- Robinson Jeffers -- Tennessee Williams -- Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan -- Arthur Miller -- Carson McCullers. v. 4. : Come back, little Sheba / : The fourposter / : The seven year itch / : The crucible / : Tea and sympathy / : The teahouse of the August moon / : The dairy of Anne Frank / : Look homeward, angel / : Two for the seesaw / : Oh Dad, poor Dad, Mamma's hung you in the closet and I'm feelin' so sad / : Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? / : The odd couple / : Fiddler on the roof / William Inge -- Jan de Hartog -- George Axelrod -- Arthur Miller -- Robert Anderson -- John Patrick -- Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett -- Ketti Frings -- William Gibson -- Arthur L. Kopit -- Edward Albee -- Neil Simon -- Joseph Stein.