Representative Modern Plays

Description:

Contains: Comedy. Expressionistic satire. Beggar on horseback / George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly ; Realistic folk comedy. The late Christopher Bean / Sidney Howard ; The comedy of manners. Biography / S.N. Behrman -- Serious drama. Naturalistic tragedy. Mourning becomes Electra / by Eugene O'Neill ; Romantic drama of history. Valley Forge / Maxwell Anderson ; The proletarian drama. Waiting for Lefty / Clifford Odets ; Domestic drama. [Glass Menagerie](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL30293W/Glass_Menagerie) / Tennessee Williams ; Middle-class tragedy. [Death of a salesman](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL66346W/Death_of_a_Salesman) / Arthur Miller.

subjects: memory plays,  autobiographical drama,  Family,  American drama,  Fiction,  Drama,  Young men,  Human relations,  Brothers and sisters,  Mothers and sons,  Families,  Young women with disabilities,  Mothers and daughters,  domestic drama,  Interpersonal relations,  flashback,  literary fiction,  Play,  Sales personnel,  Fathers and sons,  Selling,  Characters,  Classic Literature,  Problems

People: Amanda Wingfield,  Laura Wingfield,  Tom Wingfield,  Jim O'Connor,  Willy Loman,  Linda,  Biff,  Happy,  Bernard,  The Woman,  Charley,  Uncle Ben,  Howard Wagner,  Jenny Stanley,  Miss Forsythe,  Letta

Places: Boston,  Saint Louis,  Missouri

Times: 20th century