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Complete guide to Maxwell Anderson's plays, performances of his works, and material by and about him.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chronology
Life and Career
The Plays: Summaries, Productions, and Critical Overviews
The Stage Plays
Adam, Lilith, and Eve (1950)
Anne of the Thousand Days (1948)
The Bad Seed (1957)
Barefoot in Athens (1951)
Benvenuto (1922)
Both Your Houses (1933)
The Buccaneer (with Laurence Stallings, 1925)
Candle in the Wind (1941)
Cavalier King (1952)
Chicot the King (1926)
The Day the Money Stopped (with Brendan Gill, 1957)
Elizabeth the Queen (1930)
The Eve of St. Mark (1942)
First Flight (with Laurence Stallings, 1925)
Gods of the Lightning (with Harold Hickerson, 1928)
The Golden Six (1958)
Gypsy (1927)
Hell on Wheels (with Douglas Moore and Jack Niles, 1928)
High Tor (1937)
Joan of Lorraine (1946)
Journey to Jerusalem (1940)
Key Largo (1939)
Knickerbocker Holiday (with Kurt Weill, 1938)
Letter to Jackie (1943)
Lost in the Stars (with Kurt Weill, 1949)
Madonna and Child (1956)
The Marriage Recipe (c.1927)
Mary of Scotland (1933)
The Masque of Kings (1937)
The Masque of Pedagogues (1911)
The Masque of Queens (1954)
Meeting in Africa (c.1943)
Night over Taos (1932)
Outside Looking In (1925)
The Princess Renegade (1932)
Raft on the River (with Kurt Weill, 1950)
Richard and Anne (1955)
Saturday's Children (1927)
Sea-Wife (1924)
The Star-Wagon (1937)
Storm Operation (1944)
Truckline Cafe (1946)
Ulysses Africanus (1945)
Valley Forge (1934)
What Price Glory? (with Laurence Stallings, 1924)
White Desert (1923)
The Wingless Victory (1936)
Winterset (1935)
The Radio Plays
The Bastion Saint-Gervais (1938)
The Feast of Ortolans (1937)
From Reveille to Breakfast (1942)
John Keats and America (1941)
The Miracle of the Danube (1941)
Second Overture (1938?)
Your Navy (with Kurt Weill, 1942)
Televison Play
The Christmas Carol (1954)
Primary Bibliography: Writings by Anderson
Plays
Theatre Criticism
Articles and Essays in Books, Periodicals, and Newspapers
Archival Sources
Secondary Bibliography: Reviews
Secondary Bibliography: Books, Articles, Sections
Author Index
General Index

About the Author

BARBARA LEE HORN is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Speech, Communication Sciences and Theatre at St. John's University in New York./e Her publications include The Age of Hair: Evolution and Impact of Broadway's First Rock Musical (1991), Joseph Papp: A Bio-Bibliography (1992), David Merrick: A Bio-Bibliography (1992), Colleen Dewhurst: A Bio-Bibliography (1993), and Ellen Stewart and La Mama: A Bio-Bibliography (1993), all published by Greenwood Press.