The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 361 pages of information about The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays.

The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 361 pages of information about The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays.

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.

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