{"title": "BEST plays of the early American theatre", "subtitle": "from the beginning to 1916", "publish_date": "1967", "publishers": ["Crown publishers"], "pagination": "716p.", "table_of_contents": [{"type": "/type/text", "value": "The contrast (1787) / Royall Tyler -- Superstition (1824) / James N. Baker -- Charles the Second (1824) / John Howard Payne and Washington Irving -- Fashion (1845) / Anna Cora Mowatt -- Uncle Tom's cabin (1852) / George L. Aiken -- The octoroon (1859) / Dion Boucicault -- The count of Monte Cristo (1883) / Charles Fechter -- The mouse-trap (1889) / William Dean Howells -- Secret Service (1896) / William Gillette -- The great divide (1906) / William Vaughn Moody -- The New York idea (1906) / Langdon Mitchell -- The truth (1907) / Clyde Fitch -- The witching hour (1907) / Augustus Thomas -- Salvation Nell (1908) / Edward Sheldon -- The easiest way (1909) / Eugene Walter -- The scarecrow (1911) / Percy MacKaye."}], "contributions": ["Gassner, John.", "Gassner, Mollie."], "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "publish_country": "xxk", "by_statement": "edited with introductions by John Gassner in association with Mollie Gassner.", "publish_places": ["New York"], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "source_records": ["marc:talis_openlibrary_contribution/talis-openlibrary-contribution.mrc:2902508824:565"], "key": "/books/OL21781008M", "number_of_pages": 716, "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-11-03T23:25:31.606159"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-06-11T14:43:46.893039"}}