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"Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy" by Steele MacKaye James Morrison Steele MacKaye was an American playwright, actor, theater manager and inventor. Paul Kauvar was one of his most famous works. A dramatic story of anarchy and the complex road life takes, often when you least expect it. None of Steele Mackaye's dramas were written with any idea of being read. They were all constructed by one fully alive to the theatre and its demands. Thus, they are so descriptive in nature, they paint a picture as if you wee watching it on stage.
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"The New York Idea" is a comedy about divorce that examined the emerging phenomenon of casual divorce in the early 1900s. Its lively dialogue and the relevant absurdities of the character made it a famous drawing-room comedy.
"Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van Winkle" by Charles Burke presents readers with a timeless classic of American drama. This ebook showcases Washington Irving's beloved tale of the man who slept for twenty years and awakened to a world vastly changed. Through Burke's skillful adaptation, readers can experience the whimsical and magical journey of Rip van Winkle, offering a glimpse into the past while contemplating the themes of time, change, and the enduring spirit of humanity. This ebook is an excellent introduction to the works of American dramatists, providing readers with a captivating and entertaining literary experience.
Steele Mackaye (1842-1894), was an American actor, dramatist, producer, and theater manager. He was born in Buffalo as James Morrison. He studied dramatic expression in Paris under Francois Delsarte and on his return lectured in New York and Boston. He founded the Lyceum Theater, and was father to Percy MacKaye and Benton Mackaye He wrote the plays Monaldi and Marriage. Other works include: The Twins (1876), Won at Last (1877), Through the Dark (1878), Hazel Kirke (1880), and Anarchy (1887), originally called Paul Kauvar; or Anarchy, later shortened to Anarchy, and then again changed to Paul Kauvar.
The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays is an anthology of six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights currently receiving critical acclaim in the States. It showcases work produced at a number of the leading theatres during the last decade and charts something of the extraordinary range of current playwriting in America. It will be invaluable not only to readers and theatergoers in the U.S., but to those around the world seeking out new American plays and an insight into how U.S. playwrights are engaging with their current social and political environment. There is a rich collection of distinctive, diverse voices at work in the contemporary American theatre and this brings together six of the best, with work by David Adjmi, Marcus Gardley, Young Jean Lee, Katori Hall, Christopher Shinn and Dan LeFranc. The featured plays range from the intimate to the epic, the personal to the national and taken together explore a variety of cultural perspectives on life in America. The first play, David Adjmi's Stunning, is an excavation of ruptured identity set in modern day Midwood, Brooklyn, in the heart of the insular Syrian-Jewish community; Marcus Gardley's lyrical epic The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry deals with the migration of Black Seminoles, is set in mid-1800s Oklahoma and speaks directly to modern spirituality, relocation and cultural history; Young Jean Lee's Pullman, WA deals with self-hatred and the self-help culture in her formally inventive three-character play; Katori Hall's Hurt Village uses the real housing project of "Hurt Village" as a potent allegory for urban neglect set against the backdrop of the Iraq war; Christopher Shinn's Dying City melds the personal and political in a theatrical crucible that cracks open our response to 9/11 and Abu Graib, and finally Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal, an inter-generational play spanning eighty years, is set in the mid-west in a generic restaurant and considers family legacy and how some of the smallest events in life turn out to be the most significant.