Project Gutenberg 2011-08-06 Public domain in the USA. 710 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.) Reading ease score: 87.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. en One-act plays Drama -- Collections PN Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Performing Arts/Film Category: Plays/Films/Dramas Category: American Literature 2355195 2025-06-15T06:28:27.839541 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 777101 2025-06-15T06:29:31.219205 application/epub+zip 805999 2025-06-15T06:28:40.746475 application/epub+zip 786539 2025-06-15T06:28:34.603482 application/epub+zip 1696918 2025-06-15T06:29:57.828587 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1464000 2025-06-15T06:29:23.168229 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1425472 2022-09-17T04:30:08.942928 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1695110 2025-06-15T06:27:57.724197 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 20578 2025-06-15T06:29:58.188559 application/rdf+xml 14746 2025-06-15T06:28:35.615460 image/jpeg 3587 2025-06-15T06:28:35.112478 image/jpeg 754933 2025-06-15T06:28:28.007542 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog