Strictly Dishonorable and Other Lost American Plays

By Richard Nelson

Book Overview

These lively dramas from the twenties and thirties evoke a world of gangsters on the lam, crooked cops on the take, intrepid newspapermen hungry for a scoop, and slightly tarnished damsels in distress. Reading them, it's hard to imagine how they ever got lost in the first place. But thanks to Richard Nelson's dramaturgical sleuthing, they're back and as compelling as ever.

The four plays included in this volume are:

Strictly Dishonorable by Preston Sturges
The Racket by Bartlett Cormack
The Ghost of Yankee Doodle by Sidney Howard
A Slight Case of Murder by Howard Lindsay and Damon Runyon.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930452550
• ISBN13: 9780930452551
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"