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SIXTH EDITION, ENLARGED AND WITH PORTRAITS

HALE'S DRAMATISTS OF TO-DAY

ROSTAND, HAUPTMANN, SUDERMANN,
PINERO, SHAW, PHILLIPS, MAETERLINCK

By Prof. Edward Everett Hale, Jr., of Union College. With gilt top,
$1.50 net; by mail, $1.60.

Since this work first appeared in 1905, Maeterlinck's SISTER BEATRICE,
THE BLUE BIRD and MARY MAGDALENE, Rostand's CHANTECLER and Pinero's
MID-CHANNEL and THE THUNDERBOLT--among the notable plays by some of Dr.
Hale's dramatists--have been acted here. Discussions of them are added
to this new edition, as are considerations of Bernard Shaw's and Stephen
Phillips' latest plays. The author's papers on Hauptmann and Sudermann,
with slight additions, with his "Note on Standards of Criticism," "Our
Idea of Tragedy," and an appendix of all the plays of each author, with
dates of their first performance or publication, complete the volume.

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