Covers American theater's formative period, 1916-1929, with 25 complete plays, biographical and production data, and a survey of the period's drama and dramatists.

"The hairy ape" / Eugene O'Neill -- Desire under the elms / Eugene O'Neill -- What price glory? / Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson -- They knew what they wanted / Sidney Howard -- Beggar on horseback / George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly -- Craig's wife / George Kelly -- Broadway / Philip Dunning and George Abbott -- Paris bound / Philip Barry -- The road to Rome / Robert E. Sherwood -- The second man / S.N. Behrman -- Saturday's children / Maxwell Anderson -- Porgy / Dorothy and DuBose Heyward -- The front page / Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur -- Machinal / Sophie Treadwell -- Gods of the lightning / Maxwell Anderson and Harold Hickerson -- Street scene / Elmer Rice -- Strictly dishonorable / Preston Sturges -- Berkeley Square / John L. Balderston -- The clod / Lewis Beach -- Trifles / Susan Glaspell -- Ile / Eugene O'Neill -- Aria da Capo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Poor Aubrey / George Kelly -- White dresses / Paul Green -- Minnie Field / E.P. Conkle.