The following pages contain advertisements of other Macmillan plays.
THE PLAYS OF SIR RABINDRANATH TAGORE
The Cycle of Spring: A Play
Cloth, 12mo, $1.25; leather, $1.75
“All the joy, the buoyancy, the resilience, the indomitable and irrepressible hopefulness of Youth are compacted in the lines of the play. The keynote is sounded, with subtle symbolism, in the Prelude, in which the King ranks above all matters of State or of Humanity the circumstances that two gray hairs had made their appearance behind the ear that morning.... Dramatic power, philosophy, and lyric charm are brilliantly blended in a work of art that has the freshness and the promise of its theme.”—New York Tribune.
Chitra: A Play in One Act
Cloth, $1.00; leather, $1.75
“He has given us the soul of the East disembodied of its sensuality, and within it shines the most perfect tribute to true womanhood and its claims.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“The play is told with the simplicity and wonder of imagery always characteristic of Rabindranath Tagore.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The King of the Dark Chamber
Cloth, $1.25; leather, $1.75
“The most careless reader can hardly proceed far into these inspired pages without realizing that he is in the presence of holy things—of an allegory of the soul as has not before been told in the English tongue.”—Chicago Evening Post.
The Post Office
Cloth, $1.00; limp leather, $1.75
“Once more Tagore demonstrates the universality of his genius; once more he shows how art and true feeling know no racial and religious lines.”—Kentucky Post.
DRAMAS BY LEWIS V. LEDOUX
Yzdra: A Tragedy in Three Acts
$1.25
“The reader is struck by the fascinating possibilities of Yzdra as acting drama. It would make a striking and beautiful play for the stage, and we can well imagine that even the greatest actress would be glad to assume the rôle of the ill-fated Princess. The dialogue is, from the point of view of the stage, certain in its effective quality.”—New York Times.
“There are both grace and strength in this drama and it also possesses the movement and spirit for presentation upon the stage. Some of the figures used are striking and beautiful, quite free from excess, and sometimes almost austere in their restraint. The characters are clearly individualized and a just balance is preserved in the action.”—Outlook.
The Story of Eleusis
$1.25
“The most thoroughly imbued with the classic mood of the younger American poets is Louis V. Ledoux. In him rings a genuine passion; no false simulation; no reflection of a glamour that is remote by association, or is the thin echo of other imaginative voices.... Beside the beauty of the verse, stately and rich in its calm melodic simplicity, there is envisaged a feeling for the deeper springs of life.”—Boston Transcript.
“This lyrical drama comes from the pen of one of the finest of our young modern poets.... With a strength and simplicity that puts to shame the diffuseness and depravity of the new writers of vers libre ... this author writes a play less sensational than his previous ‘Yzdra’ but more sustained.... ‘Eleusis’ is Hellenic in the subject and in the beauty of its proportion and harmony ... and several of its lyrics are marvelous songs in rhythmic phrase and in underlying thought.”—The Bellman (Minneapolis).
“There must be thousands of readers who would give this new poem a warm and grateful welcome if only the rare quality of it could be brought properly to their attention.... This does not signify necessarily that the poem is an unqualified masterpiece, but it indicates the presence of a quality that has always been present in the grand style when the grand style has compelled itself to endure.”—The New York Evening Sun.
The Canterbury Pilgrims: A Comedy
By PERCY MACKAYE
Decorated cloth, gilt top, 210 pages, 12mo, $1.25; boards, $1.00
The principal characters are Geoffrey Chaucer; Alisoun, the wife of Bath; Madame Eglantine, the prioress, and Johanna, Marchioness of Kent. The time of the action is in April, 1387, and the scenes are the Tabard Inn, Southwark, another tavern on the road, and the exterior of Canterbury Cathedral. The story, which is entertaining from first to last, has to do with Chaucer’s adventure with the wife of Bath and his love for the prioress.
“Every line of The Canterbury Pilgrims seems to have been wrought with infinite pains. The play possesses splendid literary qualities—and it is actable.”—Dramatic Mirror.
“For a twentieth century author to take the characters of Chaucer’s famous stories and give them parts in a new comedy in verse, is a bold, nay, a perilous undertaking. But Mr. Percy MacKaye has carried it through with a large measure of success. He has drunk deep of the great Father of English poetry’s well, so that the comedy’s delightfully quaint language has the real Chaucerian ring. With much skill he portrays the pilgrims, picturing their respective failings and virtues so deftly that they appeal as strongly to modern taste as they did to our ancestors, yet preserving generally the mediæval tone.... Specially amusing is Friar Hubert, a jovial, mischievous rogue, whose drollery is irresistible.”—Oxford Chronicle.
“Throughout the play the characters of these two most innocent lovers [Chaucer and the prioress] are maintained with exquisite humor and feeling for life. Outside of the covers of Shakespeare it would be hard to find anything of the kind at once more original and more nearly on Shakespeare’s level.”—New York Times.