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Chapter 9: REPRESENTATIVE PLAYS BY WELL-KNOWN PLAYWRIGHTS
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A four-act stage drama set in New York follows Georgiana Carley and the members of her household across time jumps that move from a children's playroom to drawing-room confrontations and private chambers. The narrative tracks shifting alliances, courtship tensions, and disputes among relatives and servants as a suitor's presence forces personal choices. Scenes combine comic moments of manners with more serious examinations of individual autonomy, social expectation, and domestic authority, using intimate interiors and episodic structure to reveal changing loyalties and the consequences of characters asserting their wills.

REPRESENTATIVE PLAYS
BY WELL-KNOWN PLAYWRIGHTS


By MR. CLYDE FITCH
Each 75c. net (postage 6c.)

The Climbers

A keen satire on contemporary New York society, which explains its title thus:—

"There are social climbers, but wealth is as good a goal. I was a climber after wealth and everything it brings."

"And I after happiness and all it brings."—Act II.

The Girl with the Green Eyes

A study of the jealous temperament. The play is full of touches of a remarkable intuition, and the heroine's character is portrayed with rare delicacy.

The Toast of the Town

A comedy dealing with the life of an actress in the period of George III., and with the tragedy of middle age.

Her Own Way
and
The Stubbornness of Geraldine

are two original American plays, ingenious and novel in their employment of pictorial devices. These plays are funds of delightful sentiment, unhackneyed, piquant humor, and minute observation.

For the faithfulness of his chronicles of American life Mr. Fitch is to be ranked with Mr. Henry Arthur Jones in the English field, and with the best of the modern French dramatists on the Continent.


By HENRY ARTHUR JONES
Each 75c. net (postage 6c.)

The Manœuvres of Jane

An Original Comedy in Four Acts.

"The occasional publication of a play by Henry Arthur Jones is a matter for congratulation.... In 'The Manoeuvres of Jane' we see Mr. Jones in his most sprightly mood and at the height of his ingenuity; ... its plot is plausible and comic, and its dialogue is witty."

The Transcript (Boston).

Mrs. Dane's Defence

A Play in Four Acts.

First poduced in London by Sir Charles Wyndham. Margaret Anglin and Charles Richman scored a success in it in New York and elsewhere.

The Whitewashing of Julia

An Original Comedy in Three Acts and an Epilogue.

Saints and Sinners

An Original Drama of Modern English Middle-Class Life in Five Acts.

The Crusaders

An Original Comedy of Modern London Life.

The Case of Rebellious Susan

A Comedy in Three Acts.

Carnac Sahib

An Original Play in Four Acts.

The Triumph of the Philistines

Michael and His Lost Angel

The Tempters

The Liars

The Masqueraders


By MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL

The Title-Mart

A live comedy of American life, turning on schemes of ambitious elders, through which love and the young folks follow their own sweet ways.

Cloth, 16mo, 75c. net (postage 6c.)


By PAUL HEYSE
Freely translated by WILLIAM WINTER

Mary of Magdala

The English version used by Mrs. Fiske in New York and elsewhere.

Cloth, $1.25 net


By MR. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
(Plays for an Irish Theatre)

Where There is Nothing

The Hour Glass And Other Plays

Cloth, each $1.25 net (postage 7c.)

In the Seven Woods

Cloth, 12mo, $1.00 net (postage 6c.)

"Mr. Yeats' work is notable as supplying that rarest of all things—a distinctly new strain in English poetic and dramatic literature."—Miss Katharine Lee Bates in the Transcript (Boston).


By MR. THOMAS HARDY

The Dynasts

A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars. In three parts.

Part I., 12mo, cloth, $1.50 net


By MR. STEPHEN PHILLIPS
Cloth, each $1.25 net (postage 8c.)

The Sin of David

The theme is indicated by the title, but the time of the play is that of Cromwell, and runs its course during the English civil war.

Ulysses

A dramatic success in both London and New York, first presented in a marvellous stage-setting by Beerbohm Tree, and pronounced "the most strikingly imaginative production the present generation has witnessed."


By MR. PERCY W. MACKAYE

Cloth, each $1.25 net (postage 7c.)

Fenris the Wolf   A Tragedy.

The Canterbury Pilgrims

"A rollicking little farce-comedy, with lyrics interspersed."—Churchman.


By MR. LAURENCE HOUSMAN

Bethlehem

A Nativity Play. Performed with Music by Joseph Moorat, under the Stage Direction of Edward Gordon Craig, December, MCMII.

Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net (postage 7c.)




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