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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 3 1 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
udely and without preparation, they learned their technique at the expense of a theatre-going public. It is a nondescript position taken by the novelist in his attitude towards the theatre. Rex Beach has had his novels turned into plays by others, and has written moving-picture scenarios. Alice Hegan Rice met with as great success in the dramatization of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage patch (3 September, 1904) as she did when the story ran into its million circulation as a book. Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin Riggs has tried time and time again to enter the magic realm, and did so with Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Republic Theatre, 3 October, 1900). But the literary life of America has never, thus far, considered the theatre as anything more than a by-product of the novelist's art. Writers have, to use George Ade's phrase, butted in too easily, and they have had no appreciable influence on the craft. Then, later on, the reverse process began. Though plays were being published and widely
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Rice, Allen T., 302 Richard, 589 Richard Carvel, 91, 287 Richard Henry Dana, a biography, 198 Richard savage, 280 Richardson, Abby S., 280 Richardson, Samuel, 105, 538 Richter, Fernande, 581 Ride of Billy Venero, the, 514 Ride of Paul Venarez, 514 Rider of Dreams, the, 267 Riders of the stars, 161 Ride with Kit Carson through the Great American Desert and the Rocky Mountains, A, 150 Riedesel, Baroness von, 577 Rien on Moi, 596 Rigdon, Sidney, 520 Riggs, Kate Douglas Wiggin, 288 Rights of man to property, the, 436 Rihbany, Abraham M., 421 Riis, Jacob, 420 Riley, J. I., 7 Riley, James Whitcomb, 27, 31, 37, 59-62, 261 n., 264 n. Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 295 Ripley, George, 472 Rip Van Winkle, 268 Rise and fall of the Confederate government, 182, 351 Rise of David Levinsky, the, 606, 607 Rise of Silas Lapham, the, 80 Ritschl, 465 Rittig, J., 582 Rival Suitors for America, the, 494 River of the West, the, 153 Robbin, Bobb