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...from the University Mr. MacKaye studied at the University of Leipzig until 1900. He then returned to this country and taught in a private school in New York until 1904 when he began writing plays. His best known works are "The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer," "Fenris, the Wolf," "Sappho and Phaon," and "Jeanne d'Arc." The last named was produced by E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe in this country and England in 1906-07. Mr. MacKaye has also been a lecturer on American Drama in Chicago, Ann Arbor, and Buffalo...
...LECTURES ON THE MODERN GERMAN DRAMA. "Grillparzers Werke I.--Ahnfrau, Sappho, Das goldene Vliess, Konig Ottokar." Professor Kuehnemann. Emerson...
...LECTURES ON THE MODERN GERMAN DRAMA. "Grillparzers Werke I.--Ahnfran, Sappho, Das goldene Vliess, Konig Ottokar." Professor Kuehnemann. Emerson...
...Sappho and Phaon," by Percy Wallace Mackaye '97. Manilla...
...Mackaye is not the first who has tried to dramatize this old Greek myth, poetical enough in itself to fascinate all poets. If the success of any drama is its suitability for stage presentation, then "Sappho and Phaon." as has been proved in New York, fails, but so also must the dramas of Browning and Tennyson and Swinburne be called failures. The reasons are obvious: it is too long-I think that the version given by Miss Kalisch was liberally cut down; it is too far removed from actuality; it has too little action: it is too poetical. Even...