Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 25 pages of information about Representative Plays by American Dramatists.

Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 25 pages of information about Representative Plays by American Dramatists.

Pence, James Harry.  The Magazine and the Drama.  New York:  Dunlap Society. 1896.

Phelps, William Lyon.  The Twentieth Century Theatre.  New York:  Macmillan. 1918.

Pollock, Channing.  The Footlights Fore and Aft.  Boston:  Badger. 1911.

Quinn, A.H.  Representative American Plays.  New York:  Century. 1917.

Reed, Perley I. The Realistic Presentation of American Characters in Native American Plays Prior to Eighteen Seventy.  Ohio State University Bulletin.  Vol. 22, No. 26, May, 1918.

Roden, Robert F. Later American Plays.  New York:  Dunlap Society. 1900.

Rolland, Romain.  The People’s Theatre.  New York:  Holt. 1918.  (Giving the principles which are spreading and forming a democratic conception of the theatre.)

Ruhl, Arthur.  Second Nights.  New York:  Scribner. 1914.

Shipman, Louis E. The True Adventures of a Play.  New York:  Kennerley. 1914.

INDIVIDUAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES FOR PLAYS

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RIP VAN WINKLE

Dion Boucicault.  “Dramatization of Rip Van Winkle.” Critic (New York), No. 66, vol. 3, pp. 158-59, April 7, 1883.

Brown, T. Allston.  “History of the New York Stage,” 3 vols.  New York:  Dodd, Mead. 1903.

H. C. Bunner.  On Jefferson’s Rip.  See Matthews and Hutton:  “Actors and Actresses in Great Britain and the United States.” 5 vols. 1886.

J.B.  Clapp and E.F.  Edgett.  “Plays of the Present.”  New York:  Dunlap Society, 1902.

George William Curtis.  On Jefferson’s Rip. Harper’s Magazine, March, 1871.

L. Clarke Davis.  “Among the Comedians.” Atlantic Monthly, 19:750-61, June, 1867.

L. Clarke Davis.  “At and After the Play.” Lippincott, July, 1879.

Durang.  “History of the Philadelphia Stage.”  Published in the Philadelphia Dispatch.

The Galaxy_, February, 1868.  On Hackett’s Rip.

Harper’s Magazine, 67:617.  The Legend of Rip Van Winkle.

Laurence Hutton.  “Curiosities of the American Stage.”  New York:  Harper, 1891.

Laurence Hutton.  “Plays and Players.”  New York:  Hurd & Houghton. 1875.

Joseph Jefferson.  “Autobiography.”  New York:  Century. 1890.

Jefferson’s version of “Rip.”  New York:  Dodd, Mead. 1895.

Jefferson, Intimate Recollections of (by Eugenie Paul Jefferson).  New
York:  Dodd, Mead. 1909.

Jefferson’s Rip is detailed in the following magazines: 

Ev.  Sat., 10:  152, 162.

Radical (S.  Johnson), 6:  133.

Nation (A.  G. Sedgwick), 9:  247.

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