The Signet Book of Short Plays

by M. Jerry Weiss (Editor)

A new 12 short plays by Tennessee Williams, Horton Foote, Wendy Wasserstein, and more. This introduction to the ever-evolving tradition of American theater includes works from Kia Corthron, Daisy Foote, Horton Foote, Susan Glaspell, Greg Gunning, David Ives, William Saroyan, Shel Silverstein, Gore Vidal, Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, and Tennessee Williams.  

Genres: Plays

384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 7, 2004

About the author

M. Jerry Weiss is Distinguished Service Professor of Communications Emeritus, New Jersey City University. A teacher, writer, and lecturer, he has won numerous awards and honors, including the 1997 International Reading Association Special Service Award and the National Council of Teachers of English Distinguished Service Award. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

Reviews

[Bamdad]

اغلب آثار منتشر در این مجموعه، توسط نشر نیلا و تحت عنوان کتاب‌های کوچک چاپ شده اند.

[Stamen Parushev · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall, most of the plays are very good, but few are boring for me. First one, by K. Corthon is brutal, and those by D.Ives and Gore Vidal are very funny and are my favorites.

[James Binz · Rating 5 out of 5]

top notch short plays from well known playwrights.

[Robin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked this book a lot. It was a good length 358 pages. And all of the plays that M. Jerry Weiss the editor chose to put into this little compilation weren't all the same kind of genre, if they were this book of short plays wouldn't have been this interesting for me. What I also liked about this book was the title of some of the plays. They were just so crazy and funny, that I had to read those certain ones first, for example like Life By Asphyxiation or Suppressed Desires: A Comedy or Variations On The Death Of Trotsky. Those were my favorite short plays. I don't exactly know why, but they just were, they were exciting and just fun to read.

[Shaya · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the No Skronking Shel Silverstein one. Nice collection. A bit too long for my purposes of finding a play less than 10 minutes for a church service.