One-act Play - One-act Plays By Major Dramatists

One-act Plays By Major Dramatists

  • Samuel Beckett - Krapp's Last Tape (1958)
  • Anton Chekhov - A Marriage Proposal (1890)
  • Arthur Miller - A Memory of Two Mondays (1955)
  • Israel Horovitz - Line (1974)
  • Eugene Ionesco - The Bald Soprano (1950)
  • August Strindberg - Pariah (1889), Motherly Love (1892), and The First Warning (1892)
  • Thornton Wilder - The Long Christmas Dinner (1931)

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