Contains the complete text of twenty plays generally accepted as the best produced during the decade of 1930-1939.

Winterset / Maxwell Anderson -- High Tor / Maxwell Anderson -- Idiot's delight / Robert E. Sherwood -- Johnny Johnson / Paul Green -- Green pastures / Marc Connelly -- You can't take it with you / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart -- End of summer / S.N. Behrman -- The animal kingdom / Philip Barry -- Boy meets girl / Bella and Samuel Spewack -- The women / Clare Boothe -- Yes my darling daughter / Mark Reed -- Three men on a horse / George Abbott and J.C. Holm -- The children's hour / Lillian Hellman -- Tobacco Road / Jack Kirkland and Erskine Caldwell -- Of mice and men / John Steinbeck -- Dead end / Sidney Kingsley -- Bury the dead / Irwin Shaw -- The fall of the city / Archibald Macleigh -- Golden boy / Clifford Odets -- Stage door / Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman.