Wasn't this all cemented after Fortune's Fool, a play written in 1848 and never done on Broadway, was nominated for Best Play? (what a year! the other 3 were The Goat, Metamorpheses, and Topdog/Underdog!)
It was, I think, previously never produced anywhere. But this is of course a very rare situation, it does open the door the what counts as a new play. Especially when the author couldn't even BE alive, in the range of human aging, to see the play produced or even read by the people doing it (he was born in 1818). |
