The Stammering Century

By Gilbert Seldes, Gilbert Vivian Seldes, Seldes, Gilbert, 1893-1970

The American Stage: Writing On Theater From Washington Irving To Tony Kushner (LOA #203)

By Spalding Gray, Lottie Blair Parker, Hamlin Garland, Arthur Miller, Morton Eustis, Eric Bentley, William, Goldman, Brooks Atkinson, William, Winter, William Dunlap, SUSAN SONTAG, Anne Bogart, Charles Sprague, Harold Clurman, Mary McCarthy, Hallie Flanagan, Alexander Woollcott, Ezra Pound, Luis Valdez, Ludwig LEWISOHN, Channing. POLLOCK, Thomas Wolfe, S. J. Perelman, John Simon, Philip Hone, Robert Benchley, Gore Vidal, Henry James, GEORGE JEAN NATHAN, Ring Lardner, John Lahr, Thornton Wilder, Edward P. Hingston, Mark Twain, Alexis De Tocqueville, Tony Kushner, John Lithgow, Fred Allen, Hutchins Hapgood, Frances Parkinson Keyes, John Mason Brown, Rollin Lynde Hartt, Lee Simonson, Charles King Newcomb, William Gillette, Gilbert Seldes, James G. Huneker, Stark Young, Elia Kazan, John Houseman, Walter Kerr, Tennessee Williams, David. MAMET, Walt Whitman, Alan Dale, Laurence Senelick, Frances Milton Trollope, Olive Logan, Carl Van Vechten, Elizabeth Hardwick, Charles L. Mee Jr, Dorothy Parker, Thomas M. Disch, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Langston Hughes, Edward Albee, Alain LeRoy Locke, Ed Bullins, Don Marquis, Edgar Allan Poe, Lorraine Hansberry, Charles Ludlam, Wendy Wasserstein, Washington Irving, Sidney Skolsky, Anna Cora Mowatt, Willa Cather, Djuna Barnes, Edmund Wilson, Frank Rich, Lawrence Senelick, Editor / Foreword By John Lithgow

Here is the story, told firsthand through electric, deeply engaged writing, of America’s living theater, high and low, mainstream and experimental. Drawing on history, criticism, memoir, fiction, p...

The Best Plays Of 1966-1967

By Arthur Miller, Jean Anouilh, Neil Simon, William Hanley, Joseph Stein, Gilbert Seldes, Murray Schisgal, Otis L. Guernsey, Otis L. Guernsey, Edward Albee, Amiri Baraka, Friedrich Deurrenmatt

Mislabeled: this is actually best plays of 1964-1965

The Great Audience

By Gilbert Seldes, Gilbert Seloes

Lysistrata

By Aristophanes, Alexander, Gilbert Seldes, Leighton

In this rich compilation, Emeka Nwosu takes the reader to a journey of the issues that have helped to shape discourses on various aspects of the Nigerian state and society. The articles, originally...

The Stammering Century

By Gilbert Seldes

Gilbert Seldes, the author of The Stammering Century, writes:       This book is not a record of the major events in Ameri­can history during    &#1...

The Seven Lively Arts

By Gilbert Seldes

“... But, beside those great men, there is a certain number of artists who have a distinct faculty of their own by which they convey to us a peculiar quality of pleasure which we cannot get elsewhe...

The Seven Lively Arts

By Gilbert Seldes

“... But, beside those great men, there is a certain number of artists who have a distinct faculty of their own by which they convey to us a peculiar quality of pleasure which we cannot get elsewhe...