Babin, Maria Teresa and Steiner, Stan, eds.
BORINQUEN: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Literature
. New York: Vintage Books, 1974. Good solid collection of Puerto Rican narrative and poetry in English. Good possibilities for reciting. There’s one play included in the collection.
Brooks, Gwendolyn.
Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology
. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1976.
Recent black narrative. Great possibilities for reciting or converting to script.
Childress, Alice, ed.
Black Scenes
. New York: Doubleday, 1971. Cuttings or scenes from contemporary black theater. Relevant.
Bullins, Ed, ed.
The New LaFayette Theater Presents: Plays with
Aesthetic Comments by Six Black Playwrights. Anchor Books, 1974.
Good reading for the teacher. May be taught to students with a lot of preparation.
Gassner, John and Mollie, eds.
15 International One Act Plays
. New York: Pocket Books, 1969.
Translated works of some well-known works, that must be selected with a vision towards who the student is.
Kanerman, Sylvia E., ed.
Dramatized Folk Tales of the World
. Boston: Plays, Inc. 1971.
50 one-act plays that have been written based on stories from all over the world. Some language seems antiquated.
Reinert, Otto and Arnott, Peter, eds.
Twenty-three Plays
. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1978.
All the great plays here for the teacher’s use. Strong introduction on the nature of drama.
Thane, Adele.
Plays from Famous Stories and Fairy Tales
. Boston:. Plays, Inc., 1967.
Like Kamerman’s, good collection that could work hand in hand with the original story to show the jump from story to play. The plays themselves may not be of interest to all.