Francesca da Rimini. By George Henry Boker. 1855

Love in '76. An Incident of the Revolution. By Oliver Bell Bunce. 1857

Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy. By Steele Mackaye. 1887

Shenandoah. By Bronson Howard. 1888

In Mizzoura. By Augustus Thomas. 1893

The Moth and the Flame. By Clyde Fitch. 1898

The New York Idea. By Langdon Mitchett. 1906

The Easiest Way. By Eugene Walter. 1909

The Return of Peter Grimm. By David Belasco. 1911

The Authors and Their Plays.




INTRODUCTION


The present volume of "Representative Plays by American Dramatists"
includes many hitherto unpublished manuscripts. These are for the first
time made available in authoritative form to the student of the American