| One-Act Plays: (Joseph Jacobs Classics Collection) Contributor(s): Jacobs, Joseph (Author) |
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ISBN: 1508921083 ISBN-13: 9781508921080 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.39 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.96 lbs) 324 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The history of this new form is of necessity brief. Before its vogue became general, one-act plays were being presented in vaudeville houses in this country and were being used as curtain raisers in London theatres for the purpose of marking time until the late-dining audiences should arrive. With the exception of the famous Grand Guignol Theatre in Paris, where the entertainment for an evening might consist of several one-act plays, all of the hair-raising, blood-curdling variety, programs composed entirely of one-act plays were rare. Sir James Matthew Barrie is usually credited with being the first in England to write one-act plays intended to be grouped in a single production. A program of this character has been uncommon in the commercial theatre in America, but three of Barrie's one-act plays, constituting a single program, have met with enthusiastic response from American audiences. |