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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)
ame into the theatre fold. Many American writers rushed in because it was a lucrative venture when successful; and coming in thus crudely 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 ha
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)
, 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 Murray, W. H. H., 163 Muscipula: the Mouse-trap, 444-45