Plays in One Act
by Daniel Halpern (Editor)
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Gathers plays by Edward Albee, Christopher Durang, Vaclav Havel, Garrison Keillor, David Mamet, Arthur Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard, Wendy Wasserstein, and Lanford Wilson.Tags
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Even with short plays, a book can load up too many and overload the reader. This is one of those books, especially since most of the plays are grim and depressing. Also, I think the editor may have selected plays solely by the name of the author (most of them are well known), and not by the quality of the play, since many of these fail to achieve the high quality expected of most of these authors. Overall, rather a disappointment.
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Daniel Halpern was born on September 11, 1945 in Syracuse, New York. He received a master of fine arts degree from Columbia University in 1972. He has been an instructor in poetry at Princeton University, New School of Social Research, and Columbia University. He began working at Ecco Press in New York City in 1969, and later became show more editor-in-chief. He has written several collections of poetry including Traveling on Credit, Tango and Something Shining: Poems. He has edited anthologies of both poetry and prose including Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contemporary Poets, The American Poetry Anthology, and The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories. He has won several awards and honors as an editor including the Jessie Rehder Poetry Award, YMHA Discovery Award, and the Great Lakes Colleges National Book Award. (Bowker Author Biography) Daniel Halpern is editorial director of The Ecco Press/HarperCollins & the author of seven previous books of poetry. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife & daughter. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 808.8241 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures Literature Collections Collections of drama
- LCC
- PN6112 .P58 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Drama
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