IF I WERE KING: A romantic play, in the vein of De Banville's
_Gringoire_, in which Villon becomes Marshal of France, for a
brief time and with a fearful condition stipulated by the
spider-king, Louis XI.
Heinemann.
+Edward Knoblauch and Arnold Bennett+
MILESTONES: Three different generations, with their different
ideas and ideals, confront similar problems with different views,
and arrive at various conclusions.
Doran.
+Percy Mackaye+
THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS: Mr. Mackaye, translator with Professor
Tatlock of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, has written here a clever
play of the travelers' adventures. The Wife of Bath is of course
the ringleader in mischief.
Macmillan.
CALIBAN BY THE YELLOW SANDS: A masque for the Shakespeare
Tercentenary Celebration, New York City.
Doubleday.
JEANNE D'ARC: A tragedy made up of incidents in the life of the
Maid.
Macmillan.
SAM AVERAGE: A Silhouette. A soldier of 1812 is kept true to the
cause by a vision of Sam Average, the spirit of his nation.
In Yankee Fantasies, Duffield.
THE SCARECROW: A lively dramatization of Hawthorne's Feathertop,
from Mosses from an Old Manse.
Macmillan.
+Mary MacMillan+
THE SHADOWED STAR: Portraying the cruel suffering of two Irish
peasant women who wait in a city tenement for Christmas as they
remember it.
In Short Plays, Stewart and Kidd.
+Maurice Maeterlinck+
ARDIANE AND BLUEBEARD: A resolute wife finally defies Bluebeard
and rescues his wives; but they refuse to forsake their
unfortunate and beloved husband.
Dodd, Mead.
A MIRACLE OF SAINT ANTHONY
THE INTRUDER; THE DEATH OF TINTAGILES; INTERIOR (OR HOME):
Poignant and mystical tragedies expressing the unseen and
inescapable forces surrounding and closing in upon men's lives.
Boni and Liveright; Dodd, Mead.
THE BLUE BIRD: Two peasant children, accompanied by their friends
Dog, Cat, Bread, Sugar, and others, search everywhere for the
blue bird of happiness. They visit among other places the realms
of the dead, where their grandparents are, and of the unborn.
Finally they look in the last and likeliest place.
Dodd, Mead.
THE BETROTHAL: Further adventures of Tytyl.
Dodd, Mead.
+John Masefield+
PHILIP THE KING; TRAGEDY OF POMPEY THE GREAT:
High tragedies. The great Pompey, defeated by the upstart Ceesar,
is kingly to the end.
Sidgwick and Jackson, London; Macmillan, New York.
THE SWEEPS OF NINETY-EIGHT: A fugitive from an unsuccessful
rebellion achieves a sweeping revenge upon the leaders of the
enemy; amusing comedy.
Macmillan.
THE TRAGEDY OF NAN: One of the most poignantly tragic of modern
plays; the mercilessness of weak and selfish people crushes out a
beautiful life.
Richards, London.
+Rutherford Mayne (J. Waddell)+
THE DRONE: An old man by playing craftily at being on the eve of
a great invention lives most comfortably on his brother's means;
but forces accumulate against him and he is threatened with
eviction from the hive.
Luce.
+George Middleton+
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