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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.) 2 2 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)
ary, 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 dramatizations like Becky sh
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)
271 Morris, G. S., 239 n. Morse, Jedidiah, 401, 431, 546, 54 Morse, S. F. B., 345, 348 Morte d'arthur, 17 Morton, Martha, 290 Morton, Nathaniel, 533 Morton oder die Grosse tour, 579 Moth and the flame, the, 274, 280 Motley, 126, 178, 188, 190, 302, 306, 472 Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, 158 Mount Holyoke Seminary, 411 Mower in Ohio, the, 59 Mozart, 449, 450 M. Quad. See Lewis, Charles Bertrand Mr. Dooley. See Dunne, F. P. Mr. Isaacs, 87 Mrs. Bumpstead Leigh, 294 Mrs. Leffingwell's boots, 283 Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage patch, 288 Mr. Waddy's Return, 68 n. Muhlenberg, H. M., 577 Muir, John, 112, 116, 167 Muller, Max, 469 Muller, Wilhelm, 582 Mulligan guard ball, the, 279 Munch, Friedrich, 587 Muinchausen, Baron, 580 Mundartlich Heiteres, 583 Munger, T. T., 208 Munro, 463 Munsey's, 316, 317 Munsterberg, Hugo, 586 Munter, Carl, 583 Murdock, Frank, 275 Murphy, H. C., 185 Murray, Lindley, 401, 446