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.

Ibid.

+Beulah Marie Dix and Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland+

ROSE O’PLYMOUTH TOWN:  A pleasant play of Puritans and their neighbors.

Dramatic Publishing Company.

+Oliphant Down+

THE MAKER OF DREAMS:  Poetical small play in which love appears with a new make-up but in the old role.

Gowans and Gray.

+Ernest Dowson+

THE PIERROT OF THE MINUTE:  A quite charming tale of Pierrot and the Moon-Maiden.

In his Collected Poems, Lane.

+John Drinkwater+

ABRAHAM LINCOLN:  A dramatic presentation of episodes in Lincoln’s life, from his nomination to the presidency to his death.

Sidgwick and Jackson; Houghton Mifflin.

COPHETUA:  In which King Cophetua justifies to his court and councillors his marriage to the beggar maid.

Sidgwick and Jackson; Houghton Mifflin.

THE STORM:  An intense but quiet tragedy of a woman who waits while men search for her husband, lost in a great storm in the hills.

In Four Poetic Plays, Houghtou Mifflin; Pawns, Sidgwick and
Jackson.

THE GOD or QUIETNESS:  The zest of war draws away all the notable worshipers of the god of quietness, and an angry war-lord slays the god himself.

Ibid.

X-O:  A NIGHT OF THE TROJAN WAR:  Trojans and Greeks, lovers of poetry, fellowship, and justice, carry on ruthless slaughter, and by irreparable losses strike a balance of exact advantage to either side.

Ibid.

+Lord Dunsany+

THE GODS OF THE MOUNTAIN:  Of seven beggars who wear pieces of green silk beneath their rags, and by brilliant devices of Agmar, their leader, contrive to be taken for the gods of the mountain disguised as beggars—­until the real gods leave their thrones at Manna.

In Five Plays, Richards, London; Little, Brown.

KING ARGFMENES AND THE UNKNOWN WABBIOR:  A slave, born a king, finds an old bronze sword buried in the ground he is tilling, and henceforward has less interest in the bones of the king’s dog, who is dying.

Ibid.

THE GOLDEN DOOM:  A child’s scrawl on the palace pavements furnishes the text for the soothsayers’ prophecy of disaster.

Ibid.

THE LOST SILK HAT:  Of the embarrassment of a rejected suitor who, in his agitation, has left his hat in the lady’s drawing-room and dislikes the idea of returning for it.

Ibid.

THE QUEEN’S ENEMIES:  They are invited to a feast of reconciliation in the great banquet room below the level of the river.

In Plays of Gods and Men. Unwin, London; J.W.  Luce, Boston.

A NIGHT AT AN INN:  A commonplace ancient plot is filled anew with dramatic terror and a sense of mystery.

Ibid.

+Edith M.O.  Ellis (Mrs. Havelock Ellis)+

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