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    Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Introduction and Bibliography
    Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Introduction and Bibliography
    Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Introduction and Bibliography
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    Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Introduction and Bibliography

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      Representative Plays by American Dramatists - Montrose Jonas Moses

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Introduction and Bibliography, by Montrose J. Moses

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Introduction and Bibliography

      Author: Montrose J. Moses

      Release Date: April 15, 2004 [EBook #12038]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN PLAYS 3 ***

      Produced by David Starner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      Representative Plays by American Dramatists

      Edited, with an Introduction to Each Play

      By MONTROSE J. MOSES

      1856-1911

      Illustrated with Portraits, and

      Original Playbills

      1921

      To BRANDER MATTHEWS

      Friend of the American Theatre

      To whom all Critics of the Theatre are beholden.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction.

      Bibliographies.

      Rip Van Winkle: A Legend of the Catskills. A

      Comparative Arrangement with the Kerr Version.

      By Charles Burke. 1850

      Francesca da Rimini. By George Henry Boker. 1855

      Love in '76. An Incident of the Revolution. By Oliver Bell Bunce. 1857

      Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy. By Steele Mackaye. 1887

      Shenandoah. By Bronson Howard. 1888

      In Mizzoura. By Augustus Thomas. 1893

      The Moth and the Flame. By Clyde Fitch. 1898

      The New York Idea. By Langdon Mitchett. 1906

      The Easiest Way. By Eugene Walter. 1909

      The Return of Peter Grimm. By David Belasco. 1911

      The Authors and Their Plays.

      INTRODUCTION

      The present volume of Representative Plays by American Dramatists includes many hitherto unpublished manuscripts. These are for the first time made available in authoritative form to the student of the American theatre. The Editor has tried consistently to adhere to his original basis of selection: to offer only those texts not generally in circulation and not used elsewhere in other anthologies. Exactions of copyright have sometimes compelled him to depart from this rule. He has been somewhat embarrassed, editorially, by the ungenerous haste with which a few others have followed closely in his path, even to the point of reproducing plays which were known to be scheduled for this collection. For that reason there have been omitted Mr. William Gillette's Secret Service, available to readers in so many forms, and Mr. Percy Mackaye's The Scarecrow. No anthology of the present historical scope, however, can disregard George Henry Boker's Francesca da Rimini or Bronson Howard's Shenandoah. In the instance of Mr. Langdon Mitchell's The New York Idea, it is possible to supersede all previous issues of this refreshing comedy by offering a text which, as to stage directions, has been completely revised by the author. Mr. Mitchell wishes to have this regarded as the correct version, and has himself prepared the copy of same. Because of the easy accessibility of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana, it was thought best to omit this Irish-American playwright, whose

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