Only one of Mr. Kennedy’s plays has achieved a popular triumph, and the success of that one was due to its limited and somewhat perverted interpretation. They all, however, repay study and disclose new depths with each re-reading. Serious art rarely makes quick conquests. Audiences of spirit and intellect will develop for them as they have for the plays of Ibsen and Maeterlinck. The new audience, the new theater, and the new drama—old as the oldest literature—in due time will come to their own again.
BOOK LIST
Plays by Individual Men
Clyde Fitch. The Plays of Clyde Fitch, Memorial Edition, edited by M. J. Moses and Virginia Gerson, 1915.
Richard Hovey. Plays, uniform edition, 1907–1908.
Charles Rann Kennedy. The plays have been published in succession by Harper’s.
Percy Mackaye. Poems and Plays. 1916. 2 vols.
William Vaughn Moody. Poems and Plays. 1912. 2 vols.
Augustus Thomas. Arizona, Alabama. Dramatic Publishing Co. As a Man Thinks. Duffield. The Witching Hour, Oliver Goldsmith, The Harvest Moon, In Mizzoura, Mrs. Leffingwell’s Boots, The Other Girl, The Capitol, and The Earl of Pawtucket. Samuel French.
Collections