Front matter
Reading edition
WORKS BY PERCY MACKAYE
PLAYS
The Canterbury Pilgrims. A Comedy.
Jeanne d’Arc. A Tragedy.
Sappho and Phaon. A Tragedy.
Fenris, the Wolf. A Tragedy.
A Garland to Sylvia. A Dramatic Reverie.
The Scarecrow. A Tragedy of the Ludicrous.
Yankee Fantasies. Five One-Act Plays.
Mater. An American Study in Comedy.
Anti-Matrimony. A Satirical Comedy.
To-Morrow. A Play in Three Acts.
A Thousand Years Ago. A Romance of the Orient.
COMMUNITY DRAMAS
Caliban. A Community Masque.
Saint Louis. A Civic Masque.
Sanctuary. A Bird Masque.
The New Citizenship. A Civic Ritual.
The Evergreen Tree. A Christmas Masque.
OPERAS
Sinbad, the Sailor. A Fantasy.
The Immigrants. A Tragedy.
The Canterbury Pilgrims. A Comedy.
POEMS
The Sistine Eve, and Other Poems.
Uriel, and Other Poems.
Lincoln. A Centenary Ode.
The Present Hour. Poems of War and Peace.
Poems and Plays. In Two Volumes.
ESSAYS
The Playhouse and the Play.
The Civic Theatre.
A Substitute for War.
Community Drama. An Interpretation.
ALSO (As Editor)
The Canterbury Tales. A Modern Rendering into Prose.
The Modern Reader’s Chaucer (with Professor J. S. P. Tatlock).
AT ALL BOOKSELLERS
Dance-Carol of the Evergreen
So we will sing our even-song And dance for thee, like king and queen,— O Evergreen, dear Evergreen!— To make thy heart be merry. (Page 42)
The EVERGREEN TREE
by PERCY MACKAYE
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON 1917
Copyright, 1917, by Percy MacKaye
All Rights Reserved
Note: For Information concerning Permission to produce this Masque or to read it in Public, see ANNOUNCEMENTS, on page 81 of this volume.
Printed in the United States of America
The EVERGREEN TREE
A Masque of Christmas Time for Community Singing and Acting
by PERCY MACKAYE
With Scenic and Costume Designs by ROBERT EDMOND JONES
Together with Three Monographs on the Masque written by the Author, the Scenic Designer, and ARTHUR FARWELL Composer of the Music
To Those Friendly Thousands of Men, Women and Children in American Towns and Cities, Who Have Shared With the Author in His Masques a Common Devotion to the Happy Cause of a Communal Art This Masque is Dedicated in Christmas Fellowship