Publisher's Synopsis
"All In the "Foreword" the Editor points out the fact that "play-publications," and especially the one-act drama, are usurping the place of the short story in the esteem of the reading public The result is that a large amount of good and bad dramas are appearing and naturally we find the high school classes and others reacting to them, and should have some carefully chosen bases for our judgments of this class of productions. This volume furnishes exceptionally helpful guidance along this line. There is a thoughtful and discriminating "Introduction" on the reading of plays, followed by more than a dozen of the best ones for amateur use; also Questions for Discussion, Notes on the Dramas and Dramatists, and the Bibliography above referred to. This is a volume with a mission.
-Education, Vol. 42 [1922]
The List of Plays:
The Philosopher of Butterbiggens by Harold Chapin
Spreading the News by Lady Gregory
The Beggar and the King by Winthrop Parkhurst
Tides by George Middleton
Ile by Eugene O'Neill
Campbell of Kilmhor by J. A. Ferguson
The Sun by John Galsworthy
The Knave of Hearts by Louise Saunders
Fame and the Poet by Lord Dunsany
The Captain of the Gate by Beulah Marie Dix
Gettysburg by Percy Mackaye
Lonesome-Like by Harold Brighottse
Riders to the Sea by John Millington Synge
The Land of Heart's Desire by William Butler Yeats
The Riding to Lithend by Gordon Bottomley
