TABLE OF CONTENTS


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

THE REPERTOIRE:

THE RED ROBE (1900) by Eugene Brieux
THE KREUTZER SONATA (1902) by Jacob Gordin
OLD SLEUTH (1902) by Hal Reid
THE LOWER DEPTHS (1902) by Maxim Gorky
THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (1903) by Baroness Orczy and Montagu Barstow
RAFFLES, THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN (1903) by E.W. Hornung and Eugene Presbrey
THE WOMAN IN THE CASE (1905) by Clyde Fitch
THE SQUAW MAN (1905) by Edwin Milton Royle
THE BURGLAR AND THE LADY (1905) by Langdon McCormick
THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST (1905) by David Belasco
THE GIRL RAFFLES (1906) by Charles E. Blaney
THE THIEF (1906) by Henry Bernstein
THE MAN OF THE HOUR (1906) by George Broadhurst
NELLIE, THE BEAUTIFUL CLOAK MODEL (1906) by Owen Davis
THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD (1907) by J.M. Synge
THE WITCHING HOUR (1907) by Augustus Thomas
THE WARRENS OF VIRGINIA (1907) by William C. deMille
THE GIRL AND THE DETECTIVE (1908) by Charles E. Blaney
THE TRAGEDY OF NAN (1908) by John Masefield
ARSÉNE LUPIN (1908) by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset
MADAME X (1908) by Alexandre Bisson
THE THIRD DEGREE (1909) by Charles Klein
THE JEST (1909) by Sem Benelli
THE CITY (1909) by Clyde Fitch
THE SPECKLED BAND (1910) by Arthur Conan Doyle
ALIAS JIMMY VALENTINE (1910) by Paul Armstrong
JUSTICE (1910) by John Galsworthy
GET-RICH-QUICK-WALLINGFORD (1910) by George M. Cohan
THE WITCH (1910) by John Masefield
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV (1911) by Jacques Copeau and Jean Croúe
THE WITNESS FOR THE DEFENSE (1911) by A.E.W. Mason
THE CONFESSION (1911) by James Halleck Reid
THE GODS OF THE MOUNTAIN (1911) by Lord Dunsany
OFFICER 666 (1912) by Augustine MacHugh
THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM (1912) by Gaston Leroux
THE SECRET WOMAN (1912) by Eden Phillpotts
WITHIN THE LAW (1912) by Bayard Veiller
THE ARGYLE CASE (1912) by Harriet Ford and Harvey J. O'Higgins
THE PASSION FLOWER (1913) by Jacinto Benavente
THE GHOST BREAKER (1913) by Charles W. Goddard and Paul Dickey
THE SHADOW (1913) by Eden Phillpotts
SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE (1913) by George M. Cohan
AT BAY (1913) by George Scarborough
WOYZECK (1913) by Georg Büchner
UNDER COVER (1914) by Roi Cooper Megrue
THE LAW OF THE LAND (1914) by George Broadhurst
ON TRIAL (1914) by Elmer Rice
INSIDE THE LINES (1915) by Earl Derr Biggers
THE HOUSE OF GLASS (1915) by Max Marcin
THE WARE CASE (1915) by George Pleydell
THE CASE OF LADY CAMBER (1915) by Horace Annesley Vachell
JOHN FERGUSON (1915) by St. John Ervine
HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (1915) by Leonid Andreyev
CHEATING CHEATERS (1916) by Max Marcin
THE THIRTEENTH CHAIR (1916) by Bayard Veiller
AT 9:45 (1919) by Owen Davis
THE CRIMSON ALIBI (1919) by George Broadhurst
COME SEVEN (1920) by Octavus Roy Cohen
THE BAT (1920) by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
THE TAVERN (1920) by George M. Cohan
THE GREEN GODDESS (1920) by William Archer
R.U.R. (1921) by Karel ?apek
BULLDOG DRUMMOND (1921) by Sapper and Gerald du Maurier
THE NIGHTCAP (1921) by Guy Bolton and Max Marcin
THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1922) by John Willard
THE LAST WARNING (1922) by Thomas Fallon
THE MACHINE-WRECKERS (1922) by Ernst Toller
THE ADDING MACHINE (1923) by Elmer Rice
THE WOMAN ON THE JURY (1923) by Bernard K. Burns
IN THE NEXT ROOM (1923) by Eleanor Robson and Harriet Ford
THE NEW POOR (1923) by Cosmo Hamilton
THE CREAKING CHAIR (1924) by Allene Tupper Wilkes
THE HAUNTED HOUSE (1924) by Owen Davis
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS (1924) by Eugene O'Neill
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1925) by André de Lorde
NUMBER SEVENTEEN (1925) by J. Jefferson Farjeon
THE GORILLA (1925) by Ralph Spence
ALOMA OF THE SOUTH SEAS (1925) by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clemens
ANYHOUSE (1925) by F. Tennyson Jesse
THE GOLEM (1925) by H. Leivick
THE GHOST TRAIN (1925) by Arnold Ridley
THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY (1925) by Frederick Lonsdale


APPENDIX A:    DEADLY POISON

APPENDIX B:    TWENTIETH CENTURY COURTROOM DRAMAS

APPENDIX C:     TWENTIETH CENTURY DEATH ROW PLAYS

APPENDIX D:     THE GRAND GUIGNOL

INDEX

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