nd+
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
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