24 Favorite One Act Plays
by Bennett Cerf (Editor), Van H. Cartmell (Editor)
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Collection of twenty-four one-act plays, most in the public domain, that can be staged by groups with limited funds, with biographical notes on each of the playwrights represented.Tags
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I read these plays over and over when I was growing up. One of my all-time favorite collections.
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Bennett Cerf was born in 1898, in Manhattan. He was educated at Columbia University. In 1925 he acquired the Modern Library with Donald Klopfer, providing the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. A major figure of American publishing for more than four decades, Cerf died in 1971.
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- Original publication date
- 1958
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- Foreword: In the fifteen years that have somehow slipped by since the editors of this volume made their first selection of Thirty Famous One-Act Plays (a collection, incidentally, that has sold nearly a hundred thous... (show all)and copies and that still flourishes in a Modern Library Giant edition), the one-act play has come of age on Broadway.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)SIMONE: Why did you not tell me you were beautiful? (He kisses her on the mouth.)
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