Macmillan.
+Anton Tchekhov+
THE BOOR; THE MARRIAGE PROPOSAL; THE WEDDING FEAST; THE TRAGEDIAN
IN SPITE OF HIMSELF:
Comical farces of extravagant conversation and action, and
apparently real studies of Russian character.
In _Plays, Second Series_ Scribner's.
+William Makepiece Thackeray+
THE ROSE AND THE RING: One of the most delightful of puppet-plays
is based on the favorite story.
Smith, Elder and Company, London; Macmillan, New York.
+Augustus Thomas+
OLIVER GOLDSMITH: A very engaging play, introducing Burke,
Goldsmith, Garrick in several amusing roles, Dr. Johnson, and
others in his circle, and presenting (in Act II) a dress
rehearsal of _She Stoops to Conquer_.
French.
+Frank G. Tompkins+
SHAM: A SOCIAL SATIRE: Of a most superior burglar, who takes only
genuine objects of art, disdains the imitation stuff that litters
Charles and Clara's home, and reads them a severe lecture on
reality and sham in this and other departments of life.
Stewart and Kidd.
+Ridgley Torrence+
GRANNY MAUMEE: Highly tragic play of the blood-hatred of negroes
for those who have tortured and killed, and of voodoo rites and
miracles; power is given the play by a most human reversal of
feeling at the last.
In _Plays for a Negro Theatre_, Macmillan.
THE RIDER OF DREAMS: A masterful mulatto who keeps his people
obedient to a benevolent despotism.
_Ibid._
+Stuart Walker+
THE MEDICINE SHOW: Some amusing characters, shiftless but fertile
of invention, and their device for getting rich.
In _Portmanteau Plays_, Stewart and Kidd.
NEVERTHELESS: A play which has interested high-school pupils and
their friends in Better Speech programmes.
_Ibid._
SIX WHO PASS WHILE THE LENTILS BOIL: A quaint and pleasant comedy
of a boy set to watch the lentils cooking, of a queen who is
fugitive from execution for a violation of etiquette, and of
other matters.
_Ibid._
+Percival Wilde+
THE TRAITOR: A traitor in the British camp is discovered by a
ruse that is effective and perhaps plausible.
In _Dawn and Other One-Act Plays_, Holt.
+Oscar M. Wolff+
WHERE BUT IN AMERICA? Amusing small comedy in which a Swedish
cook and her fiancé have potent influence in an American
household.
In Mayorga, _Representative One-Act Plays_, Little, Brown.
+William Butler Yeats+
DEIRDRE: The last scene in the tragedy of Deirdre of the Sorrows.
Macmillan.
THE GREEN HELMET: Dramatization of a most interesting Gaelic
variant of the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; it
contains good character study.
Macmillan.
THE KINO'S THRESHOLD: A poet and singer, deprived of his rightful
honor at the Irish King's court, makes effective use of the
ancient traditional weapon of the hunger strike in order to
secure to his art and its worthy practisers their due recognition.
Macmillan.
THE HOUR GLASS: A mystical play of wisdom and folly and the
approach of death.
Macmillan.
CATHLEEN NI HOOLIHAN: A moving dramatization of the compelling
spirit of Love of Country.
Macmillan.
THE POT OF BROTH: An ancient story, pleasantly dramatized, of a
witty wanderer who plays to his advantage on the credulity,
greed, and love of flattery of a sharp-tongued peasant woman.
Macmillan.
+William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory+
THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS: A mystical play of a dreamer's rough
contacts with reality.
Stratford, 1904.
+Israel Zangwill+
THE WAR GOD: Those who sacrifice others to the War God are
themselves immolated on his altar.
Macmillan.
THE MELTING POT: A serious play in which the tragic consequences
of race prejudice are realizably and poignantly set forth.
Macmillan.