“THE MOST NOTABLE ADDITION MADE TO AMERICANDRAMATIC LITERATURE IN MANY YEARS.”
“THE MOST NOTABLE ADDITION MADE TO AMERICANDRAMATIC LITERATURE IN MANY YEARS.”
Mr. PERCY MACKAYE’Snew drama
Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net;
Sappho and Phaon
by mail, $1.35
“Mr. MacKaye’s work is the most notable addition that has been made for many years to American dramatic literature. It is true poetic tragedy ... charged with happy inspiration; dignified, eloquent, passionate, imaginative, and thoroughly human in its emotions ... and whether considered in the light of literature or drama need not fear comparison with anything that has been written by Stephen Phillips or John Davidson ... masterfully written with deep pathos and unmistakable poetic power.”—New York Evening Post.The critic of theBoston Transcriptsays: “Mr. MacKaye has planned his scheme with both the exactitude of the stage director and the imagination of the poet.... We remember no drama by any modern writer that at once seems so readable and so actable, and no play that is so excellent in stage technique, so clear in characterization, and so completely filled with the atmosphere of romance and poetry.”“... The force and vigor, and beautiful imagery, of Mr. MacKaye’s happy experiment in classic form are evident. It is finer and stronger, better knit, than his ‘Jeanne d’Arc,’ which Sothern and Marlowe have found an acceptable addition to their repertory.... This play is high-water mark in American dramatic verse.”—Boston Advertiser.“Mr. MacKaye’s verse is varied, virile, and essentially dramatic, with here and there bits which stand out with rare beauty.”—New York Dramatic Mirror.“It has beauty of spirit, grace and distinction of style, and power enough to commend it to a friendly reading by lovers of dramatic writing.”—Daily Eagle.“Many are awakening to the somewhat incredulous but curiously persistent feeling that in ‘Sappho and Phaon’ Mr. MacKaye has achieved atour de forcewhich will be read with admiration for some time to come.”—The World To-Day.“Interesting for the dramatic beauty of some of its passages, for the originality of its conception, and as a curiosity of playwriting.... The tragic conception, the shipwreck of the ideal in its passionate self-emancipation from reality, is Greek to the core.”—Churchman.
“Mr. MacKaye’s work is the most notable addition that has been made for many years to American dramatic literature. It is true poetic tragedy ... charged with happy inspiration; dignified, eloquent, passionate, imaginative, and thoroughly human in its emotions ... and whether considered in the light of literature or drama need not fear comparison with anything that has been written by Stephen Phillips or John Davidson ... masterfully written with deep pathos and unmistakable poetic power.”—New York Evening Post.
The critic of theBoston Transcriptsays: “Mr. MacKaye has planned his scheme with both the exactitude of the stage director and the imagination of the poet.... We remember no drama by any modern writer that at once seems so readable and so actable, and no play that is so excellent in stage technique, so clear in characterization, and so completely filled with the atmosphere of romance and poetry.”
“... The force and vigor, and beautiful imagery, of Mr. MacKaye’s happy experiment in classic form are evident. It is finer and stronger, better knit, than his ‘Jeanne d’Arc,’ which Sothern and Marlowe have found an acceptable addition to their repertory.... This play is high-water mark in American dramatic verse.”—Boston Advertiser.
“Mr. MacKaye’s verse is varied, virile, and essentially dramatic, with here and there bits which stand out with rare beauty.”—New York Dramatic Mirror.
“It has beauty of spirit, grace and distinction of style, and power enough to commend it to a friendly reading by lovers of dramatic writing.”—Daily Eagle.
“Many are awakening to the somewhat incredulous but curiously persistent feeling that in ‘Sappho and Phaon’ Mr. MacKaye has achieved atour de forcewhich will be read with admiration for some time to come.”—The World To-Day.
“Interesting for the dramatic beauty of some of its passages, for the originality of its conception, and as a curiosity of playwriting.... The tragic conception, the shipwreck of the ideal in its passionate self-emancipation from reality, is Greek to the core.”—Churchman.
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