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Title: The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays
Author: Various
Editor: Sterling Andrus Leonard
Release Date: August 4, 2005 [EBook #16435]
Language: English
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THE ATLANTIC BOOK
OF MODERN PLAYS
Edited with Introduction, Comment
and Annotated Bibliography
by
Sterling Andrus Leonard
_Department of English
The University of Wisconsin and
The Wisconsin High School_
The Atlantic Monthly Press
Boston
_The rights of production of these plays are in every case
reserved by the authors or their representatives. No play can be
given publicly without an individual arrangement. The law does
not, of course, prevent their reading in classrooms or their
production before an audience of a school or invited guests where
no fee is charged; but it is, naturally, more courteous to ask
permission._
1921
The Atlantic Monthly Press
First impression, December, 1921
Second impression, April, 1922
Third impression, October, 1922
_Printed in the United States of America_
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: ON THE READING OF PLAYS
THE PHILOSOPHER OF BUTTERBIGGENS _Harold Chapin_
SPREADING THE NEWS _Lady Gregory_
THE BEGGAR AND THE KING _Winthrop Parkhurst_
TIDES _George Middleton_
ILE _Eugene O'Neill_
CAMPBELL OF KILMHOR _J.A. Ferguson_
THE SUN _John Galsworthy_
THE KNAVE OF HEARTS _Louise Saunders_
FAME AND THE POET _Lord Dunsany_
THE CAPTAIN OF THE GATE _Beulah Marie Dix_
GETTYSBURG _Percy Mackaye_
LONESOME-LIKE _Harold Brighouse_
RIDERS TO THE SEA _John Millington Synge_
THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE _William Butler Yeats_
RIDING TO LITHEND _Gordon Bottomley_
QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION IN READING THE PLAYS
NOTES ON THE DRAMAS AND THE DRAMATISTS
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PLAYS AND RELATED BOOKS
FOREWORD
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