CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA:  New views of the chief characters, introduced by two interesting scenes—­of 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.