Download or read book Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea written by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The New York Idea" is a comedy about divorce that examined the emerging phenomenon of casual divorce in the early 1900s. Its lively dialogue and the relevant absurdities of the character made it a famous drawing-room comedy.