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1921

The Lamp and the Bell


Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1921
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Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays


Luigi Pirandello - 1921
    The tragedy Henry IV dramatizes the lucid madness of a man who may be King. In So It Is (If You Think So) the townspeople exercise a morbid curiosity attempting to discover 'the truth' about the Ponza family. Each of these plays can lay claim to being Pirandello's masterpiece, and in exploring the nature of human personality each one stretches the resources of drama to their limits.

Dulcy


George S. Kaufman - 1921
    Since Gordon is about to merge his business with that of C. Rogers Forbes, Dulcy invites the Forbeses and their daughter Angela for a weekend. She also invites the scenario writer Vincent Leach, who is in love with Angela; her brother, Bill; and a rich young man she has met at a party, Schuyler Van Dyck. She manages to irritate Mr. Forbes by encouraging Angela and Vincent to elope and by having Schuyler offer to support Gordon in a venture in opposition to Mr. Forbes. But Blair Patterson arrives, announcing that Schuyler is actually simply a harmless madman who thinks he is rich. Luckily for Dulcy, Forbes sees Patterson, who is an attorney for the real Van Dycks, and offers Gordon an even better deal than he did at first. And then it is discovered that Angela eloped not with Vincent, but with Bill. Though things have turned out well, Dulcy promises never again to meddle. After all, “A burnt child dreads the fire. Once bitten—”Heywood Broun wrote in the Tribune, “Dulcy is an ingenious trick play and the patter which introduces the legerdemain is even better than the stunts.”(This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.)