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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815474003321

Autore

Mencken H. L (Henry Louis), <1880-1956.>

Titolo

The collected drama of H.L. Mencken : plays and criticism / / edited S.T. Joshi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham [Md.], : Scarecrow Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8108-8370-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JoshiS. T. <1958->

Disciplina

812/.52

Soggetti

American drama - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The plays -- pt. 2. Mencken on drama.

Sommario/riassunto

In The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism, S. T. Joshi has assembled for the first time Mencken's dramatic works, comprising six one-act plays and the lengthy three-act play Heliogabalus. These plays, which have never been reprinted since their original appearances in newspapers or in Mencken's early volume A Book of Burlesques (1916), exhibit Mencken's penchant for satire and ridicule. The seco