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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.) 4 0 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)
His Romance (10 February, 1913) has none of the real New York flavour of Fitch's Captain Jinks of the horse Marines (4 February, 1901). With no philosophic body of ideas moving American drama, it is surprising what an excellent number of plays can be mentioned as illustrative of certain definite types of drama. It is not a dead creative field which can point to the high comedy of A. E. Thomas's Her husband's wife (9 May, 1910), Thompson Buchanan's A woman's way (22 February, 1909), Harry James Smith's Mrs. Bumpstead Leigh (Lyceum Theatre, 3 April, 1911), and Jesse Lynch Williams's Why marry? (Astor Theatre, 25 December, 1917). Perhaps these examples are overtopped by Langdon Mitchell's The New York idea (Lyric Theatre, 19 November, 1906), which has an irony of universal Import—a tang of the Restoration drama, without its blatant Vulgarity—a critical sense of manners at once timely and for ever true. This ability shown by Mitchell makes one deplore the time spent by him on dramat
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)
of R. F. Stockton, 143 Skidmore, T., 436 Skinner, J. S., 432 Skinner, Otis, 279 Skip to My Lou, 516 Slave; or memoirs of Archy Moore, the, 71 Slavery and Freedom, 226 n. Slavery Ordained of God, 340 Slave trade, the, 435 Sleep, 37 Slim princess, the, 91 Small boy and others, a, 100, 419 Smith, Abiel, 454 Smith, Adam, 425, 428, 431, 435 Smith, Arthur H., 212 Smith, Charles H., 352 Smith, Charlotte, 541 Smith, E. P., 436 Smith, F. Hopkinson, 95, 283 Smith, Harry James, 294 Smith, Jedediah, 139 Smith, Joseph, 142 Smith, Joseph, Jr., 517, 518, 519, 520, 521, 522, 526 Smith, R. P., 268 Smith, Roswell, 310 Smith, S. F., 495 Smith, Sydney, 454 Smith, Wm., 394 Smith, Wm. A., 339 Smith, Wm. H., 419 Smith, Winchell, 294 Snake dance of the Moquis [Hopi] of Arizona, 159 Snow-bound, 549 Snowland folk, 170 Social destiny of man, 437 Socialistic . . . fragment, 438 Social pioneer, the, 437 Social problems, 441 Social Sci