Project Gutenberg 2011-08-06 Public domain in the USA. 326 Shay, Frank 1888 1954 Loving, Pierre 1893 21000611 Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays Produced by Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays" by Frank Shay and Pierre Loving is a collection of theatrical works selected and edited in the early 20th century. This anthology features a variety of one-act plays from both American and foreign authors, showcasing a range of themes, styles, and characters drawn from contemporary theater. The purpose of the collection is to highlight the evolving landscape of the dramatic arts during this period and to provide a platform for emerging writers. The opening of the anthology consists of an introduction by Pierre Loving, who discusses the challenges faced during the selection process for the collection. Loving notes the abundance of good one-act plays being produced, emphasizing the difficulty in narrowing down the choices while trying to avoid any sense of subjective bias. He points out that American plays dominate the selection, reflecting a growing renaissance in the American theater, and expresses a hope that these works will reach a wider audience, while also alluding to several international plays that have been included to introduce English-speaking readers to noteworthy foreign authors. The opening sets the stage for an appreciation of the diversity and richness of contemporary theater encapsulated in the subsequent plays. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en One-act plays Drama -- Collections PN Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Performing Arts/Film 2355064 2354865 2024-09-15T14:06:58.485710 2023-09-16T07:31:08.281380 text/html text/html 2405264 2011-08-06T16:00:56 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 674299 2011-08-06T16:00:58 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 752666 2024-09-15T14:07:57.000389 application/epub+zip 781785 2024-09-15T14:07:08.319668 application/epub+zip 781785 2024-09-15T14:07:03.147666 application/epub+zip 1658353 2024-09-15T14:08:23.554764 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1425623 2024-09-15T14:07:50.143431 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1425472 2022-09-17T04:30:08.942928 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1695110 1695021 2024-09-15T14:06:26.313368 2023-09-16T07:30:39.182123 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 1694169 2011-08-06T16:00:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 613136 2011-08-06T16:00:58 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1694186 2011-08-06T16:00:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 612857 2011-08-06T16:00:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20221 2024-09-15T14:08:23.805731 application/rdf+xml 14771 2024-09-15T14:07:03.894653 image/jpeg 3591 2024-09-15T14:07:03.522672 image/jpeg 731011 2024-09-15T14:06:58.649674 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog