Two Short Plays : The Wonder Hat and Back of the Yards

Two Short Plays by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman breathes new life into Chicago’s historic Little Theater Movement. This illustrated edition of two of Goodman’s best-known plays, The Wonder Hat and Back of the Yards, recalls that Goodman—still well-remembered as a key figure in Chicago’s theater scene and the man for whom the Goodman Theatre was named—wrote and produced his own works before the influenza epidemic of 1918 cut short his life.

IOANA CORNEA graduated from Lake Forest College with a degree in education and English; she works as a teacher in the Chicago Public Schools.

BENJAMIN GOLUBOFF is an associate professor of English at Lake Forest College. He has written on a wide variety of topics in American literature.