INDIVIDUAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES FOR PLAYS
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RIP VAN WINKLE
Dion Boucicault. "Dramatization of Rip Van Winkle." Critic (New York), No. 66, vol. 3, pp. 158-59, April 7, 1883.
Brown, T. Allston. "History of the New York Stage," 3 vols. New York: Dodd, Mead. 1903.
H. C. Bunner. On Jefferson's Rip. See Matthews and Hutton: "Actors and Actresses in Great Britain and the United States." 5 vols. 1886.
J.B. Clapp and E.F. Edgett. "Plays of the Present." New York: Dunlap Society, 1902.
George William Curtis. On Jefferson's Rip. Harper's Magazine, March, 1871.
L. Clarke Davis. "Among the Comedians." Atlantic Monthly, 19:750-61, June, 1867.
L. Clarke Davis. "At and After the Play." Lippincott, July, 1879.
Durang. "History of the Philadelphia Stage." Published in the Philadelphia _Dispatch.
The Galaxy_, February, 1868. On Hackett's Rip.
Harper's Magazine, 67:617. The Legend of Rip Van Winkle.
Laurence Hutton. "Curiosities of the American Stage." New York: Harper, 1891.
Laurence Hutton. "Plays and Players." New York: Hurd & Houghton. 1875.
Joseph Jefferson. "Autobiography." New York: Century. 1890.
Jefferson's version of "Rip." New York: Dodd, Mead. 1895.
Jefferson, Intimate Recollections of (by Eugenie Paul Jefferson). New York: Dodd, Mead. 1909.
Jefferson's Rip is detailed in the following magazines:
Ev. Sat., 10: 152, 162.
Radical (S. Johnson), 6: 133.
Nation (A. G. Sedgwick), 9: 247.
Atlantic Monthly (L. C. Davis), 19: 750.
Appleton, 19: 146.
Scribner, 1:216, December, 1870.
Harper, 42: 614, April, 1871.
Atlantic Monthly, 52:695.
"The Original of Rip Van Winkle." Lon. M., 5:229.
N. M. Ludlow. "Dramatic Life as I Found It." St. Louis: G. I. Jones & Co. 1880.
Brander Matthews. On Jefferson's Rip. Scribner. July, 1879.
Brander Matthews. "These Many Years." New York: Scribner. 1917.
Henry Morley. Journal of a London Playgoer. September 23, 1886.
Montrose J. Moses. "Famous Actor-Families in America." Chapters and Bibliographies under Hackett, Jefferson, Boucicault. New York: Crowell. 1906. (o.p.)
H.P. Phelps. "Players of a Century." Albany, 1880.
Sol. F. Smith. "Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty Years." New York: Harper. 1868.
J. B. Thompson, D.D. "The Genesis of the Rip Van Winkle Legend." Old Ulster. Kingston, N.Y. 1914. Vol. 10: 13-26.
Eugene Tompkins and Quincy Kilby. "History of the Boston Theatre." Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1908.
J. Rankin Towse. On Jefferson's Rip. Century, January, 1884.
J. Rankin Towse. "Sixty Years of the Theatre." New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 1916.
J.H. Wainwright. Rip Van Winkle. Libretto. Lacy Acting Edition. Vol. 39.
Walsh (T.). Dion Boucicault The Career of. New York: Dunlap Society, 1915.
F.C. Wemyss. "Twenty-six Years of the Life of an Actor and Manager." New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co. 1847. On Hackett's Rip.
Francis Wilson. "Joseph Jefferson: Reminiscences of a Fellow Player." New York: Scribner. 1906.
William Winter. "The Life of David Belasco." 2 vols. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co. 1918.
William Winter. The Jeffersons. Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co. 1881. (See also the Macmillan Life of Jefferson, by Winter. 1894.)
William Winter. "Other Days." New York: Moffat, Yard. 1908.
William Winter. "The Wallet of Time." 2 vols. New York: Moffat, Yard. 1913. (Besides the Rip references, see also J.T. Raymond and living's "Wolfert's Roost.")
GEORGE HENRY BOKER
General references for Boker, see Allibone, Lamb's Biographical Dictionary, Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Warner's Library of the World's Best Literature.
Lawrence Barrett, A Professional Sketch of. By Elwyn A. Barren. Chicago: Knight & Leonard Co. 1889. (For a review of Barrett's opening in "Francesca," Philadelphia, see telegraphic report in the New York Tribune, September 15, 1882, p. 15.)
Alfred Bates. Drama. Vol. XX. p. 70.
Biographical Encyclopedia of Pennsylvanians of the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Co. 1874. p. 370.
Magazine references to Boker: Atlantic Monthly, 65: 427, March, 1890. Book Buyer, 1900, 2147. Critic, January 11, 1890; April 12, 1890; 1898, 33: 240. Harper's Monthly, 1882, 4: 633. Harper's Weekly, 1871, 15: 1173; 1890, 34: 32. Sewanee Review (J.W. Krutch), October, 1917, 25: 457-68.
Biographic du très honorable Georges H. Boker. Ministre des Etats Unis Amérique auprès de la Sublime Porte. L'Orient Illustré Journal Hebdomadaire, Constantinople, 22 Aug., 1874.
Reception tendered by the Members of the Union League of Philadelphia to George H. Boker, Minister of the United States to Turkey, Friday Evening, December 22, 1871. Philadelphia: 1872.
Cambridge History of American Literature. New York: Putnam. 1917. 1:494. Bibliography.
Century Association: Bryant Festival. 1865. 19.
J. B. Clapp and E. F. Edgett. "Plays of the Present." New York: Dunlap Society. 1902.
E. L. Davenport. A Biography, by E. F. Edgett. New York: Dunlap Society. 1901. (A complete bibliography of Davenport is in Moses' "Famous Actor-Families in America.")
Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L. "Cyclopedia of American Literature." Philadelphia: William Rutter & Co. 1877. 2 vols. 2:710.
Knickerbocker Gallery. 1855. p. 59.
Charles Godfrey Leland. A Biography. By Elizabeth Robins Pennell. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Charles Godfrey Leland. Memoirs. 2 vols. London: Heinemann. 1893.
Charles Godfrey Leland. Reminiscences of George H. Boker. The American, 1890, March 1. 19:392-94.
Charles Godfrey Leland. Sartain's Magazine, 1851, 8:369-78.
George Parsons Lathrop. George H. Boker. Authors at Home. xxvii. Critic. n.s. vol. 9, April 14, 1888.
Morris. "Makers of Philadelphia." p. 78.
Oberholtzer. "Literary History of Philadelphia." Quinn, A. H. "The Dramas of George Henry Boker." Pub. of Modern Language Association of America. Vol. 32, no. 2, n.s., Vol. XXV, June, 1917, pp. 233-66.
T. Buchanan Read, A Memoir of. Philadelphia, 1889.
Augustus C. Rogers. "Sketches of Our Representatives Abroad."
Henry Simpson. "Lives of Eminent Philadelphians." Philadelphia: William Brotherhead. 1859. Charles S. Boker. By Joseph R. Chandler. (With portrait.) pp. 93-107.
Edmund Clarence Stedman. Life and Letters of. Edited by Laura Stedman and George M. Gould. New York: Moffat, Yard. 1910. 2 vols.
Edmund Clarence Stedman. "Poets of America." Boston: Houghton. 1892.
Edmund Clarence Stedman. "An American Anthology." Boston: Houghton. 1900.
E. C. Stedman and Ella M. Hutchinson. "A Library of American Literature." New York: C. L. Webster & Co. 1889. 8:111-18.
Richard Henry Stoddard. "Recollections Personal and Literary." Edited by Ripley Hitchcock. Introduction by Edmund Clarence Stedman. New York: Barnes. 1903.
Richard Henry Stoddard. Recollections of George Henry Boker. Lippincott, June, 1890, 45:856-67.
Bayard Taylor, Life and Letters of. Edited by Marie Hansen-Taylor and Horace E. Scudder. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton. 1885.
W. P. Trent. "William Gilmore Simms." Boston: Houghton. 1892.
William Winter. "The Wallet of Time." 2 vols. New York: Moffat, Yard. 1913.
OLIVER BELL BUNCE
Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography.
Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia. 1890.
T. Allston Brown. "History of the New York Stage." New York: Dodd, Mead. 1903. 3 vols.
Articles about Bunce in the magazines: Critic, May 24, 1890; 16:262.
Literary World (Boston), 21:192.
Articles by Bunce:
"The Players." Appleton's Journal, April 3, 1869.
"Some of Our Actors." The Galaxy. 5:165.
"Ellen Tree." See Editor's Table, Appleton's Journal, October, 1880.
For notices of "Love in '76" see the advertisement in the New York Tribune, February 28, 1857, and see also the New York Herald, March 2, 1857.
W. P. Eaton. "The American Stage of To-day." Boston: Small, Maynard. 1908. pp. 259-69. "Where is Our Drama of '76?"
Laurence Hutton. "Curiosities of the American Stage." New York: Harper. 1891.
Lamb. Biographical Dictionary of the United States.
STEELE MACKAYE
Percy Mackaye. "Steele Mackaye, Dynamic Artist of the American Theatre." The Drama, November, 1911, pp. 138-61; February, 1912, pp. 153-73.
(Notices of Mackaye's "Paul Kauvar" in the New York Tribune for December 25, 1887, and other New York papers for the same date. Mr. Percy Mackaye has in preparation a Life of his father.)
Montrose J. Moses. "The American Dramatist." Boston: Little, Brown. 1917. Chapter VIII.
William Winter. "Life of David Belasco." New York: Moffat, Yard. 1918. 2 vols. Consult indexes.
BRONSON HOWARD
William Archer, "English Dramatists of To-day." London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. 1882. Chapter on Howard.
Johnson Briscoe. "The Pioneer American Dramatist." Green Book, 11:749-56. May, 1914.
J. B. Clapp and E. F. Edgett. "Plays of the Present." New York: Dunlap Society. 1902.
Barrett H. Clark. "The British and American Drama of To-day." New York: Holt 1915. Howard, with bibliography, pp. 219-27.
Eleanor Eustace. "Drama in War Time." Green Book Album. 4:776-85.
James L. Ford. "The Banker's Daughter." Munsey, 34:122, 199.
Daniel Frohman and I. Marcosson. Charles Frohman, A Biography. Manager and Man. New York: Harper. 1916. Chapter VI.
Daniel Frohman. "Memories of a Manager." New York: Doubleday, Page. 1911.
Articles by Bronson Howard: "The American Drama." Sunday Magazine, October 7, 1906, reproduced in this volume.
"The Autobiography of a Play." With an Introduction by Augustus Thomas. Dramatic Museum of Columbia University. New York, 1914. Papers on Play-making. II. Series I. (This is also reprinted in the Memorial Volume mentioned below.) "The Literary Value of Mediocrity." (In the Memorial Volume, see Howard's address: "Trash on the Stage and the Lost Dramatists of America." p. 115.)
"In Memoriam:" Addresses delivered at the Memorial Meeting, Sunday, October 18,1908, at the Lyceum Theatre, New York. New York, 1910.
"Dry Ink." Dramatic Mirror. Christmas, 1896. 37:939.
"Schools for the Stage." Century, 61:28-37.
Bookman, 10:195 ("The Work of Bronson Howard").
Century Magazine, 3-465 ("The Plays of Bronson Howard").
Hamilton Wright Mabie. "American Plays Old and New." Outlook. December 28, 1912. pp. 945-55.
Brander Matthews. Bronson Howard. North American Review. 1908, 188:504-13. (This essay is also in "Gateways to Literature.") New York: Scribner. 1912. pp. 279-96.
Brander Matthews. "These Many Years." New York: Scribner. 1917.
Clara Morris. "Life on the Stage." (See chapter on "Saratoga"), New York: McClure, Phillips. 1902.
Montrose J. Moses. "The American Dramatist." Boston: Little, Brown. 1917. Chapter V.
(A notice of "Shenandoah" is in the New York Tribune, September 10, 1889.)
T. Edgar Pemberton. "Sir Charles Wyndham." London, 1904.
J. Rankin Towse. Bronson Howard. Book Buyer, March, 1898. 16:113-17.
William Winter. "The Life of David Belasco." 2 vols. New York: Moffat, Yard. 1918. Consult Indexes for references to Howard.
AUGUSTUS THOMAS
Barrett H. Clark. "The British and American Drama of To-day." New York: Holt. 1915. Thomas, with bibliography.
Montrose J. Moses. "The American Dramatist." Boston: Little, Brown. 1917. Chapter IX.
Walter P. Eaton. "At the New Theatre and Others." Boston: Small, Maynard. 1910. "Mr. Thomas's New Birth." ("The Harvest Moon.") pp. 109-16.
Walter P. Eaton. "Plays and Players." Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd. 1916. "As Augustus Thomas Thinks." pp. 25-33.
Walter P. Eaton. "The American Stage of To-day." Boston: Small, Maynard. 1908. "The Witching Hour."
Frederick M. Smith. "Mr. Augustus Thomas and Some of His Works." Sewanee Review. April, 1907. XV:192-98.
William Winter. "The Wallet of Time." 2 vols. New York: Moffat, Yard. 1913. "The Plays of Augustus Thomas." 2:529-57.
Mr. Thomas wrote the introduction to Bronson Howard's "Autobiography of a Play." See also his Introductions to the edition of his plays issued by Messrs. Samuel French. A political article, "The Claims of the Candidates," lauding W. J. Bryan, was written by Mr. Thomas, and published in the North American Review, June, 1908, 187:801-6.
CLYDE FITCH
Archie Bell. "The Clyde Fitch I Knew." New York: Broadway Publishing Co. 1909.
Bibliography of Clyde Fitch. "Modern Drama and Opera." Vol. II. Boston: The Boston Book Co. 1915. pp. 60-65.
(Notices of "The Moth and the Flame" are in the New York Times, April 12, 1898 and April 17, 1898. E. A. Dithmar.)
Martin Birnbaum. Critical Appreciation. Independent, 67:123-31.
Barrett H. Clark. "The British and American Drama of To-day." New York: Holt. 1915. Fitch, with bibliography.
Walter P. Eaton. "At the New Theatre." Boston: Small, Maynard. 1910. "The Case of Clyde Fitch." pp. 258-83. This was also published in Scribner's, 46:490-97.
Norman Hapgood. "The Stage in America. 1897-1900." New York: The Macmillan Co. 1901. (References to Fitch, Howard, and Thomas.)
Montrose J. Moses. "The American Dramatist." Boston: Little, Brown. 1917. Chapter X and bibliography.
Clement Scott. "Drama of Yesterday and To-day." New York: The Macmillan Co. 1899. 2 vols.
L.C. Strang. "Plays and Players of the Last Quarter Century."
For the "Beau Brummell" dispute, both sides, see the biographies of Richard Mansfield, by Paul Wilstach and William Winter. A Memorial Edition of "The Plays of Clyde Fitch," edited by Montrose J. Moses and Virginia Gerson, 4 vols., has been issued by Little, Brown & Co. Boston. 1915.
LANGDON MITCHELL
William Archer. "The New York Idea." London Tribune, May 27, 1907.
J. B. Clapp and E. F. Edgett. "Plays of the Present." New York: Dunlap Society. 1902. (Reference to "Becky Sharp.")
Norman Hapgood. "The Stage in America. 1897-1909." New York: The Macmillan Co. 1901.
Joyce Kilmer. Langdon Mitchell, interview with. New York Times, February 20, 1916.
William Winter. "The Wallet of Time." New York: Moffat, Yard. 1913. 2 vols. "The Acting of Mrs. Fiske."
EUGENE WALTER
Barrett H. Clark. "The British and American Drama of To-day." New York: Holt. 1915. With bibliography.
Denig, L. "Vicissitudes of a Playwright." Theatre, 21:235, May, 1915.
"The Easiest Way" (Excerpts). Current Literature, 51:73-81.
"The Easiest Way." Dramatist, 4:379, July, 1913.
Walter P. Eaton. "At the New Theatre and Others." Boston: Small, Maynard. 1910. pp. 93-98.
Walter P. Eaton. "The American Stage of To-day." ("Paid in Full.") Boston: Small, Maynard. 1908. pp. 45-57.
Walter P. Eaton. "Plays of Eugene Walter." American Magazine, November, 1910, 71:121-23.
Ada Patterson. Interview with Eugene Walter. Theatre, October, 1908. 8:272-76.
Peirce, Francis Lament. "Eugene Walter: An American Dramatic Realist." Drama, February, 1916. Vol. 6.
Eugene Walter. Sketch of. Green Book Album, January, 1911, 5:186-87.
William Winter. "The Life of David Belasco." 2 vols. New York: Moffat, Yard. 1918. References in the Indexes to "The Easiest Way," "Just a Wife."
William Winter. "The Wallet of Time." 2 vols. New York: Moffat, Yard. 1913. 2:374; 479-88.
For contemporary criticism on Walter consult the Dramatic Index, and the Indexes of the New York Tribune and Times.
DAVID BELASCO
Such articles by Mr. Belasco as "The Business of Theatrical Management," Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post, June 7, 1919, may be found by consulting the Dramatic Index. They are more or less amplified expressions of opinion which were dwelt upon in his extended Reminiscences, written for Hearst's Magazine, beginning March, 1914. Constant references to Mr. Belasco are to be found in Winter's "Wallet of Time." But the monumental "Life of David Belasco," 2 vols., by Winter, will give all the biographical data necessary for the student to have. It is issued by Moffat, Yard, New York, 1918. Consult likewise Montrose J. Moses' "The American Dramatist." Chapter VII. Boston: Little, Brown. 1917. See also Walter P. Eaton's "Plays and Players." Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd. 1916. "Warfield in the Spirit World," pp. 17-24. "Belasco and Hypnotism" (Locke's "The Case of Becky"), pp. 59-65.