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French.
+Serafin and Joaquim Quintero+
A SUNNY MOHNING: Two very old people recall the tremendously romantic happenings of their early youth.
In Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays, Stewart and Kidd.
+Edwin Arlington Robinson+
VAN ZORN: A play of New York studio life in which Van Zorn puts his own desires out of court and plays providence in the lives of his friends.
Macmillan.
+Santiago Rosinol+
THE PRODIGAL DOLL: A comical marionette sows his wild oats most violently and repents in deep sorrow.
In Drama, February, 1917, 5:15.
+Edmond Rostand+
CYRANO DE BERGERAC: A great play of a swashbuckling hero of the
Paris of Molière's time.
Doubleday; also in Dickinson's Contemporary Dramatists, I,
Houghton Mifflin.
L'AIGLON: The tragic story of Napoleon's son, the little King of
Rome, captive among enemies determined to tame his spirit.
Harper.
THE PRINCESS FAR-AWAY: The story of the Troubadour Rudel and the Princess of Tripoli, celebrated in one of Browning's poems, represents all worship of what is beyond attainment.
Stokes.
THE ROMANCERS: The foolish and romantic notions of two lovers are ably caricatured by their fathers' plots and stratagems.
Baker, 1906.
+Arthur Schnitzler+
LAST MASKS: A dying man in the Vienna Hospital contrives an opportunity for the cruel stroke he has intended at a man who has succeeded where he himself has failed; at the moment of possible triumph a different mood controls him. There are three excellent studies of character in the play.
In Anatol and Other Plays, Boni and Liveright.
+George Bernard Shaw+
ANDROCLES AND THE LION: The old story of a saint whom the lion remembered as his friendβwith much shrewd light upon certain types of early Christians.
Constable.
CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA: New views of the chief characters, introduced by two interesting scenesβof a garrison in Syria by night and of Cleopatra in the arms of the Sphinx.
In Three Plays for Puritans, Constable.
THE MAN OF DESTINY: Napoleon after Lodi, attacking all courses of his dinner simultaneously, drawing maps with his fork dipped in the gravy, and discoursing shrewdly on courage and success.
Constable.
O'FLAHERTY, V.C.: On a recruiting mission in his own country, O'Flaherty must account to his mother for his hitherto concealed crime of fighting not against, but for England.
In Heartbreak House, Constable.
AUGUSTUS DOES HIS BIT: A high-born muddler in Britain's conduct of the war.
Ibid.
+Arthur Shirley+
GRINGOIRE THE BALLAD-MAKER: A translation and adaptation of de
Banville's comedy about another poet than Villon in the hands of
Louis XI.
Dramatic Publishing Company.
+Thomas Wood Stevens+
THE NURSERY MAID OF HEAVEN: "Vernon Lee's" eighteenth-century legend of Sister Benvenuta and the Christ-Child, in a simple and effectively dramatic form.
In Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays, Stewart and Kidd.
+Alfred Sutro+
THE MAN ON THE KERB: A workman who has failed in every attempt to get work or help faces starvation with his wife and baby in a London tenement basement. No solution of the problem is offered.
In Five Little Plays, Duckworth, London.
A MARRIAGE HAS BEEN ARRANGED: Comedy of a rejected proposal for a society "marriage of convenience," followed by an adjustment of understanding upon another basis.
Ibid.
+John Millington Synge+
DEIRDRE OF THE SORROWS: A beautiful and poetic dramatization of the tragic Celtic legend of Deirdre and the Sons of Usna. This may well be compared with Yeats's dramatization of the same story.
Luce.
THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD: Rather fearful comedy of the popular idolatry offered by Irish peasants to a man who boasts he has killed his father.
Luce.
IN THE SHADOW OF THE GLEN: An awesome husband makes a test of his wife's love.
Luce.
THE TINKER'S WEDDING: Rather boisterous comedy of a tinker-woman who upsets ancient custom by insisting on a church wedding.
Luce.
THE WELL OF THE SAINTS: A gruesome tragedy of a blind beggar and his wife. All these dramas are as strangely filled with beauty and poetry of expression as is the Riders to the Sea.
Luce.
+Rabindranath Tagore+
THE POST OFFICE: "A poetic and symbolic play."
Macmillan.
+Anton Tchekhov+
THE BOOR; THE MARRIAGE PROPOSAL; THE WEDDING FEAST; THE TRAGEDIAN IN SPITE OF HIMSELF:Comical farces of extravagant conversation and action, and apparently real studies of Russian character.
In Plays, Second Series Scribner's.
+William Makepiece Thackeray+
THE ROSE AND THE RING: One of the most delightful of puppet-plays is based on the favorite story.
Smith, Elder and Company, London; Macmillan, New York.
+Augustus Thomas+
OLIVER GOLDSMITH: A very engaging play, introducing Burke, Goldsmith, Garrick in several amusing roles, Dr. Johnson, and others in his circle, and presenting (in Act II) a dress rehearsal of She Stoops to Conquer.
French.
+Frank G. Tompkins+
SHAM: A SOCIAL SATIRE: Of a most superior burglar, who takes only genuine objects of art, disdains the imitation stuff that litters Charles and Clara's home, and reads them a severe lecture on reality and sham in this and other departments of life.
Stewart and Kidd.
+Ridgley Torrence+
GRANNY MAUMEE: Highly tragic play of the blood-hatred of negroes for those who have tortured and killed, and of voodoo rites and miracles; power is given the play by a most human reversal of feeling at the last.
In Plays for a Negro Theatre, Macmillan.
THE RIDER OF DREAMS: A masterful mulatto who keeps his people obedient to a benevolent despotism.
Ibid.
+Stuart Walker+
THE MEDICINE SHOW: Some amusing characters, shiftless but fertile of invention, and their device for getting rich.
In Portmanteau Plays, Stewart and Kidd.
NEVERTHELESS: A play which has interested high-school pupils and their friends in Better Speech programmes.
Ibid.
SIX WHO PASS WHILE THE LENTILS BOIL: A quaint and pleasant comedy of a boy set to watch the lentils cooking, of a queen who is fugitive from execution for a violation of etiquette, and of other matters.
Ibid.
+Percival Wilde+
THE TRAITOR: A traitor in the British camp is discovered by a ruse that is effective and perhaps plausible.
In Dawn and Other One-Act Plays, Holt.
+Oscar M. Wolff+
WHERE BUT IN AMERICA? Amusing small comedy in which a Swedish cook and her fiancΓ© have potent influence in an American household.
In Mayorga, Representative One-Act Plays, Little, Brown.
+William Butler Yeats+
DEIRDRE: The last scene in the tragedy of Deirdre of the Sorrows.
Macmillan.
THE GREEN HELMET: Dramatization of a most interesting Gaelic variant of the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; it contains good character study.
Macmillan.
THE KINO'S THRESHOLD: A poet and singer, deprived of his rightful honor at the Irish King's court, makes effective use of the ancient traditional weapon of the hunger strike in order to secure to his art and its worthy practisers their due recognition.
Macmillan.
THE HOUR GLASS: A mystical play of wisdom and folly and the approach of death.
Macmillan.
CATHLEEN NI HOOLIHAN: A moving dramatization of the compelling spirit of Love of Country.
Macmillan.
THE POT OF BROTH: An ancient story, pleasantly dramatized, of a witty wanderer who plays to his advantage on the credulity, greed, and love of flattery of a sharp-tongued peasant woman.
Macmillan.
+William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory+
THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS: A mystical play of a dreamer's rough contacts with reality.
Stratford, 1904.
+Israel Zangwill+
THE WAR GOD: Those who sacrifice others to the War God are themselves immolated on his altar.
Macmillan.
THE MELTING POT: A serious play in which the tragic consequences of race prejudice are realizably and poignantly set forth.
Macmillan.
BOOKS ABOUT THE THEATRE, MARIONETTES AND CHILDREN'S PLAYS+William Archer+
PLAY MAKING: Small, Maynard and Co.
+Richard Burton+
HOW TO SEE A PLAY: Macmillan.
+Percival Chubb and Others+
FESTIVALS AND PLAYS IN SCHOOLS AND ELSEWHERE: Harper.
+Barrett Clark+
HOW TO PRODUCE AMATEUR PLAYS: Little, Brown.
+Payne Collier (attributed)+
PUNCH AND JUDY: London, 1828.
A history of the marionettes in England, illustrated by
Cruikshank.
+Clayton Hamilton+
STUDIES IN STAGECRAFT: Holt.
THE THEORY OF THE THEATRE: Holt.
+Helen Joseph+
A BOOK OF MARIONETTES: Huebsch.
Beautifully illustrated history of the puppet-plays.
+Gertrude Johnson+
CHOOSING A PLAY: Century Co.
+Ludwig Lewisohn+
THE MODERN DRAMA: Huebsch.
The best criticism of naturalistic and neo-romantic drama today.
+Karl Mantzius+
HISTORY OF THEATRICAL ART IN ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES: Five volumes: Louise von Sossell, translator. Illustrated. Lippincott.
+Roy Mitchell+
SHAKESPEARE FOR COMMUNITY PLATERS: Dutton.
Illustrated with cuts of costume, properties, etc.
+Constance D'Arcy MacKaye+
COSTUMES AND SCENERY FOR AMATEURS; HOW TO PRODUCE CHILDREN'S
PLAYS: Holt. Illustrations and directions.
+Constance MacKay+
THE LITTLE THEATRE IN THE UNITED STATES: Holt.
+Percy Mackaye+
THE COMMUNITY DRAMA: Houghton Mifflin. THE CIVIC THEATRE:
Mitchell Kennerley.
+George Jean Nathan+
ANOTHER BOOK ON THE THEATRE: Huebsch.
+Brander Matthews+
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DRAMA: Scribner's. A STUDY OF THE DRAMA:
Houghton Mifflin. A most helpful account.
+Charlotte Porter+
THE STAGE OF SHAKESPEARE: Badger. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM AS A FOLK-PAGEANT. Drama, VII, Nos 26, 27. Valuable articles for reconstructing the Elizabethan plays.
+Maurice Sand+
HISTORY OF THE HARLEQUINADE: Lippincott.
+Clarence Stratton+
PRODUCING IN LITTLE THEATRES: Holt, 1921. The magazines Drama,
Poet Lore, the Theater Arts Magazine, the Little Theater
Magazine, and articles in the English Journal are of value.
+H. Caldwell Cook+
THE PLAY WAY: Heinemann. Valuable account of work at the Pearse
School in Cambridge, England.
+Emma Sheridan Fry+
EDUCATIONAL DRAMATICS: Lloyd Adams Noble.
+Alice Minnie Herts+
THE CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL THEATRE: Harper.
+Alice Minnie Herts Heniger+
THE KINGDOM OF THE CHILD: Dutton.
+Margaret Skinner+
SOCIALIZING DRAMATICS: English Journal, October, 1920, 9:445.
An excellent account of really educational dramatics.
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