Word: scarecrow
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Dates: during 1908-1908
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...Scarecrow," reviewed below by Professor Neilson, is by Percy W. MacKaye...
...unlike anything that has been seen in the theatre these many years that parallels of any kind are hard to draw; and yet it has so much that is striking, even startling, in it that a theatrical sensation is by no means out of the question. "The Scarecrow" is a prose "tragedy of the indicrous," based upon a suggestion derived from Hawthorne's "Feathertop"; but the purely satirical purpose of the original story is replaced by an ethical significance vastly more profound; and an action that begins in grotesque comedy closes in genuine tragedy. The seen is laid...
...Scarecrow," by Percy Mackaye...