BIBLIOGRAPHIES

COLLECTIONS OF ONE-ACT PLAYS

The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays. The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, 1921.

Baker, Geo. Pierce. Plays of the 47 Workship (two volumes) and Plays of the Harvard Dramatic Club (two volumes). Brentano's, New York City, 1918-20.

Clark, Barrett H., Representative One-Act Plays by British and Irish Authors. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1921.

Cohen, Helen Louise, One-Act Plays by Modern Authors. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1921.

Eliot, Samuel A., Little Theatre Classics, one-act versions of standard plays from the modern and the classic plays. Four volumes now issued. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1918.

Mayorga, Margaret Gardner, Representative One-Act Plays by American Authors. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1919.

Moses, Montrose J., Representative One-Act Plays by Continental European Authors. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1922.

Shay, Frank, and Loving, Pierre, Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays. Stewart and Kidd Company, Cincinnati, 1920.

Wisconsin Plays, First and Second Series. B. W. Huebsch, New York City, 1914, 1918.

Smith, Alice M., Short Plays by Representative Authors. The Macmillan Company, New York City, 1921.

A Volume of Plays from the Drama, 59 East Van Buren Street, Chicago, is announced for 1922.

A Volume of One-Act Plays from the work of Professor Franz Rickaby, of the University of North Dakota, is under way.

A Volume of One-Act Plays, from the work of Professor Frederick H. Koch, of the University of North Carolina, is under way.

LISTS OF ONE-ACT PLAYS

Bibliography of Published Plays Available in English. World Drama Promoters, La Jolla, California.

Cheney, Sheldon, The Art Theatre. (Appendix: Plays Produced at the Arts and Crafts Theatre, Detroit.) Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1917.

Clapp, John Mantel, Plays for Amateurs. Bulletin of The Drama League of America, Chicago, 1915.

Clark, Barrett Harper, How to Produce Amateur Plays. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1917.

Dickinson, Thomas H., The Insurgent Theatre. (Appendix: List of Plays Produced by Little Theatres.) B. W. Huebsch, New York, 1917.

Drummond, Alex. M., Fifty One-Act Plays. Quarterly Journal of Public Speaking, Vol. I, p. 234, 1915.

Drummond, Alex. M., One-Act Plays for Schools and Colleges. Education, Vol. 4, p. 372, 1918.

Faxon, F. W., Dramatic Index. Published from year to year, Boston.

French, Samuel, Guide to Selecting Plays. Catalogues, etc. Samuel French, publisher, New York.

Johnson, Gertrude, Choosing a Play. Lists of various types of one-act plays in the Appendix. The Century Company, New York, 1920.

Kaplan, Samuel, Actable One-Act Plays. Chicago Public Library, Chicago, 1916.

Koch, Frederick H., Community Drama Service. A select list of one-act plays. Extension Series, Number 36, in University of North Carolina Record, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1920.

Lewis, B. Roland, The Technique of the One-Act Play (Appendix: Contemporary One-Act Plays). John W. Luce and Company, Boston, 1918.

Lewis, B. Roland, The One-Act Play in Colleges and High Schools. A select list of fifty one-act plays. Bulletin of Extension Division of University of Utah, Series No. 2, Vol. 10, No. 16, Salt Lake City, 1920.

Lewis, B. Roland, One Hundred Representative One-Act Plays, in The Drama, April, 1921, Vol. 11, No. 7, Chicago.

Lewis, B. Roland. Bulletin on the One-Act Play, prepared for The Drama League of America. Contains a selected list of one hundred and fifty one-act plays, with analyses, etc. The Drama League of America, Chicago, Illinois, 1921.

McFadden, E. A., Selected List of Plays for Amateurs, 113 Lake View Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1920.

Mackay, Constance D'Arcy, The Little Theatre in the United States (Appendix: List of Plays Produced in Little Theatres). Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1917.

Mayorga, Margaret Gardner, Representative One-Act Plays by American Authors (Appendix: Selective List of One-Act Plays by American Authors). Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1919.

Merry, Glenn Newton, College Plays. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1919.

Riley, Alice C. D., The One-Act Play—Study Course. Three issues (February, March, April) of The Drama League Bulletin, 1918, Washington, D. C.

Riley, Ruth, Plays and Recitations, Extension Division Record, Vol. 2, No. 2, November, 1920. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

Selected List of Christmas Plays. Drama League Calendar, November 15, 1918, New York.

Selected List of Patriotic Plays and Pageants Suitable for Amateurs. Drama League Calendar, October 1, 1918, New York.

Selected List of Plays for Amateurs. The Drama League, Boston. Also Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1917.

Shay, Frank, Play List, Winter, 1921. Frank Shay, 4 Christopher Street, New York.

Shay, Frank, and Loving, Pierre, Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays (Appendix: The Plays of the Little Theatre). Stewart & Kidd Company, Cincinnati, 1920.

Stratton, Clarence, Two Hundred Plays Suitable for Amateurs. One hundred of them are one-act plays. St. Louis, Missouri, 1920. The Drama Shop, 7 East 42d Street, New York.

Stratton, Clarence, Producing in Little Theatres (Appendix contains a revised list of one-act plays). Henry Holt & Company, New York City, 1921.

Swartout, Norman Lee, One Hundred and One Good Plays. Summit, New Jersey, 1920.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REFERENCE ON THE ONE-ACT PLAY

Andrews, Charlton, The Technique of Play Writing, Chapter XVIII. Home Correspondence School, Springfield, Massachusetts.

Cannon, Fanny, Writing and Selling a Play, Chapter XXII. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1915.

Cohen, Helen Louise, One-Act Plays by Modern Authors, Introduction. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1921.

Corbin, John, The One-Act Play, in the New York Times, May, 1918. Vol. IV, p. 8, col. 1.

Eaton, Walter P., Washington Square Plays, Introduction. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1917.

Gibbs, Clayton E., The One-Act Play, in The Theatre, Vol. XXIII, pp. 143-156, March, 1916.

Goodman, Edward, Why the One-Act Play?, in The Theatre, Vol. XXV, p. 327, June, 1917.

Gregory, Lady Augusta, Our Irish Theatre. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1913.

Hamilton, Clayton, The One-Act Play in America, in The Bookman, April, 1913. Appears as Chapter XXII in Studies in Stagecraft, Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1914.

Johnson, Gertrude, Choosing a Play, Chapter III, Why the One-Act Play??The Century Company, New York, 1920.

Lewis, B. Roland, The Technique of the One-Act Play. John W. Luce & Company, Boston, 1918.

Lewis, B. Roland, The One-Act Play in Colleges and High Schools, Bulletin of the University of Utah, Extension Series No. 2, Vol. X, No. 16, 1920. Extension Division, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

Mackay, Constance D'Arcy, The Little Theatre in the United States, some interesting comments on various one-act plays. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1917.

Middleton, George, Tradition and Other One-Act Plays, Introduction, 1913; Embers, Etc., Introduction, 1911; Possession, Etc., Introduction, 1915. All published by Henry Holt & Company, New York.

Middleton, George, The Neglected One-Act Play, in The Dramatic Mirror, January 31, 1913, pp. 13-14, New York.

Moses, Montrose J., The American Dramatist, comment on the one-act play. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1917.

Neal, Robert Wilson, Short Stories in the Making, Chapter I. Oxford University Press, New York, 1914.

Page, Brett, Writing for Vaudeville. Home Correspondence School, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1915.

Poole's Index, for articles on the one-act play in the magazines.

The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature for articles on the one-act play in the magazines.

Schitzler, Arthur, Comedies of Words, Introduction by Pierre Loving. Stewart & Kidd Company, Cincinnati, 1917.

Underhill, John Garrett, The One-Art Play in Spain, in The Drama: A Quarterly Review, February, 1917.

Wilde, Percival, Confessional, and Other One-Act Plays, Preface. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1916.

The several volumes dealing with the short story are suggested as collateral study: Pitkin, Neal, Williams, Grabo, Baker, Esenwein, Notestein and Dunn, Canby, Albright, Smith, Cross, Barrett, Mathews, Pain, Gerwig.

BIBLIOGRAPHY ON HOW TO PRODUCE PLAYS

Beegle, Mary Porter, and Crawford, Jack, Community Drama and Pageantry. The Appendices in this volume contain excellent bibliographies on almost every aspect of dramatic production. It is a most valuable work. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1917.

Chubb, Percival, Festivals and Plays. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1912.

Clark, Barrett H., How to Produce Amateur Plays. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1917.

Crampton, C. Ward, Folk Dance Book. A. S. Barnes & Company, New York, 1909.

Hughes, Talbot, Dress Designs. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1913.

Johnson, Gertrude, Choosing a Play. The Century Company, New York, 1920.

Mackay, Constance D'Arcy, Costumes and Scenery for Amateurs. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1915.

Mackay, Constance D'Arcy, How to Produce Children's Plays. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1915.

Rath, Emil, Esthetic Dancing. A. S. Barnes & Company, New York, 1914.

Rhead, G. N., Chats on Costume, or Treatment of Draperies in Art. F. A. Stokes Company, New York, 1906.

Stratton, Clarence, Producing in the Little Theatres. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1921.

Stratton, Clarence, Public Speaking, has a chapter on Dramatics. Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1920.

Taylor, Emerson, Practical Stage Directing for Amateurs. E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1916.

Waugh, Frank A., Outdoor Theatres. Richard G. Badger, Boston, 1917.

Young, James, Making Up. M. Witmark & Sons, 114 West 37th Street, New York.

FOOTNOTES:

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[F] Copyright, 1919, by The Stratford Journal.

[H] Pronounced niece.

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