The Middle Class: A Play (1912)

The Middle Class: A Play is a dramatic work written by Joshua Rosett in 1912. The play revolves around the lives of a middle-class family living in New York City during the early 20th century. The family consists of a father, mother, and their two adult children, a son and a daughter. The play explores the family's struggles with their social status, financial stability, and personal relationships. The father, who is a successful businessman, is determined to maintain their middle-class status, while the mother longs for a more luxurious lifestyle. The son is torn between his love for a working-class woman and his desire to marry into a wealthy family, while the daughter is engaged to a wealthy man but is secretly in love with a struggling artist. The play delves into themes of class, love, and ambition, and ultimately questions the value of societal expectations and material wealth.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.