Contemporary One-Act Plays

CONTEMPORARY ONE-ACT PLAYS
WITH OUTLINE STUDY OF THE ONE-ACT PLAY AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES
BY B. ROLAND LEWIS Professor and Head of the Department of English in the University of Utah; Author of The Technique of the One-Act Play CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON
COPYRIGHT, 1922, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS ——— Printed in the United States of America ———
The plays in this book are fully protected by copyright and the professional and amateur stage rights are reserved by the authors. Applications for their use should be made to the respective authors or publishers, as designated
TO THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO SO KINDLY HAVE PERMITTED ME TO REPRINT THESE ONE-ACT PLAYS
This collection of one-act plays appears because of an increasingly large demand for such a volume. The plays have been selected and the Introduction prepared to meet the need of the student or teacher who desires to acquaint himself with the one-act play as a specific dramatic form.
The plays included have been selected with this need in mind. Accordingly, emphasis has been placed upon the wholesome and uplifting rather than upon the sordid and the ultra-realistic. The unduly sentimental, the strikingly melodramatic, and the play of questionable moral problems, has been consciously avoided. Comedies, tragedies, farces, and melodramas have been included; but the chief concern has been that each play should be good, dramatic art.
The Dramatic Analysis and Construction of the One-Act Play , which appears in the Introduction, also has been prepared for the student or teacher. This outline-analysis and the plays in this volume are sufficient material, if carefully studied, for an understanding and appreciation of the one-act play.
B. ROLAND LEWIS.