Three Plays

by Clifford Odets

No dust jacket. Hardcover. Boards are rather worn, with some general patchy fading and one or two small surface marks. Spine is rather faded and worn, with wear and fraying to ends. Some wear and rubbing to leading corners. Page block is tanned, with minor age-spotting. First title page and last page of text are very tanned. Minor age-spotting on last few pages. Pages are a little tanned. Binding is sound and pages are tight throughout. Text remains clear. AF

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1936

About the author

Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director.

Odets was born in Philadelphia to Louis Odets (born Gorodetsky) and Pearl Geisinger, Russian- and Romanian-Jewish immigrants, and raised in Philadelphia and the Bronx, New York. He dropped out of high school after two years to become an actor.

In 1931, he became a founding member of the Group Theatre, a highly influential New York theatre company that utilized an acting technique new to the United States. This technique was based on the system devised by the Russian actor and director Constantin Stanislavski. It was further developed by Group Theatre director Lee Strasberg and became known as The Method or Method Acting. Odets eventually became the Group's primary playwright.