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A LIST OF PLAYS

SUITABLE FOR PRODUCTION BY HIGH
SCHOOL STUDENTS

Compiled by

MARGARET BELL MERRILL, A. M.

Teacher of English, Western High School
Washington, D. C.

and

ETHEL WATKINS, A. M.

Teacher of English, Technical High School
Scranton, Pa.

Published with the Approval of the Department of English
Teachers College, Columbia University

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A LIST OF PLAYS SUITABLE FOR PRODUCTION
BY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

'I The aim of the compilers of the following list was, first,

y^ as the title suggests, to include only those plays suitable for
r^ high school production, and, second, to collect as many of
those as possible. The only merit claimed for the compilation
/-) lies in the fact that almost every play listed has stood the test
of at least one successful high school performance. That fact
did not, however, constitute the only basis for choice. The
compilers have endeavored, also, to test each play for genuine
dramatic merit as well as for literary or popular appeal.
, Period plays are in the majority for several reasons. The

amateur actor is always less self-conscious in a costume which
o5 reminds him in no way of himself as his daily companions
know him. The period background and costumes can often
offset inevitable crudities of the immature actor. And to the
period play the audience is likely to come in a spirit of curi-
osity rather than of tolerant criticism.

The list was built up, primarily, from lists sent in upon
request from several high schools and one normal school.
Incidentally, no one play appeared on every list although
there were several which received every vote but one.^ The
V following lists are those most frequently consulted:

A. School Lists :

1. Washington, D. C, Wilson Normal School. Miss Alberta
Walker. (This list was taken over practically without omis-

■N sion.)

2. Detroit, Michigan. The Central High School. Mr. Frank
Tompkins.

3. Brookline, Mass. The Brookline High School. Miss Celina
Lewis.

4. Washington, D. C. The Business High School. Miss Maude
Gunther.

5., Los Angeles, Cal. The Manual Arts High School.

'Among the critics, themselves successful producers of high school plays, who have
generously given their support and encouragement to this undertaking, the compilers wish
to thank especially Professor Allan Abbott, of Teachers College, whose collection fur-
nished much valuable material, and whose interest always lay behind their endeavor.

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B. Published Lists:

1. One Hundred Standard Plays. List in Better High School Plays.

Gladys C. Tibbetts. English Journal, Vol. VH, No. 2, Feb-
ruary, 1918.

2. A Selected List of Plays. Compiled by E. A. McFadden and

Lillian E. Davis. (This list is not always accurate.)

3. A list in the chapter on Drama, by Anne McColm, in English

Problems in the Solving, by Sarah E. Simons. Scott, Foresman
& Co.

4. Selective Lists of Amateur Plays in How to Produce Amateur

Plays. Barrett H. Clark. Little, Brown & Co.

5. A Short List of Suitable One Act Plays. Henry MacMahon.

Ladies Home Journal, January, 192 1.

6. A Selective List of Plays for Amateurs. The Drama League of

Boston.

7. Plays for Amateurs. Arranged by John M. Clapp. The Drama

League of America, 736 Marquette Building, Chicago.

8. Lists published by Baker, No. 5 Hamilton Place, Boston, and by

Samuel French, 28-30 West 38th Street, New York.

LIST OF PLAYS FOR HIGH SCHOOLS

A. ONE ACT PLAYS

Aldis, Mary

1. Mrs. Pat and the Law

Comedy. 25 minutes. Parts: 2 men, 2 women, small boy. Scene:
simple kitchen interior. Costumes: modern. Serio-comic incident
in life of Chicago district nurse. For permission to act, apply to
Mrs. Arthur Aldis, Lake Forest, 111. From Plays for Small Stages.
Mary Aldis. Duffield.

Arkell, Reginald

2. Columbine

Comedy. 25 minutes. Parts: 4 men, i woman. Scene: exterior.
Costumes: traditional. Poetic play of the Pierrot type. French.

Barrie, Sir James

3. Rosalind

English comedy. 30 minutes. Parts: i man, 2 women. Scene;
interior. Costumes: modern. Moderately difficult but has been
done successfully by young people. In Half Hours. Royalty.
Scribner.

Brighouse, Harold

4. Lonesomelike

Comedy in Lancashire dialect. 25 minutes. Parts: 2 men, 2 wo-
men. Scene: interior. Costumes: modern peasant. Good play
for skillful amateurs. The chief difficulty lies in the dialect. French
or Brentano.

5. The Price of Coal

More serious. 25 minutes. Parts: i man, 3 women. Scene: sim-
ple cottage interior. Costumes: modern peasant. Tense situation
relieved by happy ending. Scotch dialect. French or Brentano.

Brown, Alice

6. Joint Owners in Spain

American comedy. 25 minutes. Parts: 4 women. Scene: interior.
Costumes: modern. Two fretful inmates of old ladies home furnish
delightful comedy. Royalty $5. Brentano.

Cameron, Margaret

7. The Burglar

American comedy. Easy. 45 minutes. Parts: 5 women. Scene:
summer cottage. Costumes: modern. Women, alarmed by sup-
posed burglar, find cat instead. French.

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8. The Kleptomaniac

American comedy. Easy. 45 minutes. Parts: 7 women. Scene: in-
terior. Costumes: modern. Young society woman with remarkable
facility for losing things causes many laughable complications. French.

9. Piper's Pay

American comedy. 50 minutes. Parts: 7 women. Scene: interior.
Young woman with craze for collecting things, gets into awkward
situation. French.

Davis, Richard Harding

10. Miss Civilization

Comedy. 30 minutes. Parts: 4 men, i woman. Scene: interior.
Costumes: modern. Brave, self-reliant girl gets the better of a
burglar, French,

DeBanville

11. Gringoire, the Balladmonger

Pathetic. 45 minutes. Parts: 4 men, 2 women. Scene: 15th cen-
tury interior. Costumes: 15th century. It has frequently been
used by professionals, but it is well within possibility for high school
players. Dramatic Publishing Co., Chicago. Another version,
called Pily, is published by French,

Down, Oliphant

12. The Maker of Dreams

Poetic fantasy. 30 minutes. Parts: 2 men, i woman. Scene:
interior. Costumes: traditional. Pierrot and Pierrette are helped
to find happiness. French.

Drinkwater, John

13. X = 0. A Night of the Trojan War

30 minutes. Parts: 4 men or boys, sentinel, servant. 2 scenes,
A poetic play with a sudden dramatic climax. All rights reserved. In
Pawns: Four poetic plays. Houghton Mifflin.

Dunsany, Lord

14. The Lost Silk Hat

Whimsical comedy. 15 minutes. Parts: 5 men. Scene: fashion-
able street. Costumes: modern. Agitated young man, who has
forgotten his hat upon leaving young lady, converses with laborer,
clerk, poet, and policeman. Permission to act must be obtained from
publisher. Kennedy.

15. A Night at an Inn

Difficult but well worth doing. 30 minutes. Parts: 8 men. Scene:
inn interior. Costumes: 4 modern and 4 oriental. Permission to
act must be obtained from publisher Kennerly.

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Fairbanks, S. K.

1 6. The Other Voice

A ten-minute drama of three voices that speak from a darkened
stage; no action, no visible personages. Royalty $5. Baker.

Field, Rachel Lyman

17. Three Pills in a Bottle

30 minutes. Parts: 4 men, 3 women, a boy (this part may be played
by a girl). Delightful fantasy. Permission to play must be ob-
tained from "Workshop 47," Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Gale, Zona

18. The Neighbors

Domestic drama. 30 minutes. Parts: 2 men, 6 women. Sketch of
village life. Royalty ($5) is waived to those who show community
spirit by planting a tree. Huebsch.

Gregory, Lady

19. The Gaol Gate

Pathetic. 20 minutes. Parts: i man, 2 women. Scene: outside a
prison gate. Costumes: peasant. Mother and wife of supposed rebel
talk with jailer at gate for visitors. Small royalty. French.

20. Spreading the News

Comedy. 30 minutes. Parts: 7 men, 3 women. Scene: an apple
stall in market place. Costumes: peasant. Comedy shows effect
of gossip in small village. Small royalty. French.

21. The Workhouse Ward

20 minutes. Easy except for dialect. Parts: 2 men, i woman.
Scene: interior of ward. Two bedridden men receive a visitor.
Small royalty. French.

Hawkbridge, Winifred

22. The Florist Shop

Comedy. 30 minutes. Parts: 3 men, 2 women. Scene: a florist
shop. Costumes: modern. Entertaining playlet from Harvard
"Workshop 47."

Hertz, Hendrick

23. King Rene's Daughter

Poetic. I hour. Parts: 6 men, 2 women. Scene: 15th century.
Costumes: same period. This play has been much used by schools.
Two versions are obtainable: i. Translation by Theodore Martin,
published by Henry Holt. 2. Translation by Edmund Phipps,
published by French.

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HowELLs, William Dean

24. The Mouse Trap

Farce. 30 minutes. Parts: i man, 6 women. Scene: drawing
room interior. Costumes: modern. The theme is out of date but
the development is highly amusing.

25. The Sleeping Car

Farce. 45 minutes. Parts: 5 men, 2 women. Scene: sleeping car
interior. Costumes: modern. Amusing scene in sleeping car en
route to Boston. The above plays are published by Harper Brothers.

Jennings, Gertrude

26. Between the Soup and the Savoury

Comedy. 30 minutes. Parts: cook, waitress, kitchen maid. Scene:
kitchen interior. Costumes: modern. Conversation goes on while
dinner upstairs is being served. Amusing. French.

McFadden, E. a.

27. Why the Chimes Rang

Adapted from the story of the same name by Raymond McDonald
Alden. Christmas pageant rather than play. Parts: 2 boys, i man,
I woman, lords, ladies, attendants, etc. Scene: interior of cottage
with back drop which reveals cathedral interior when raised. Cos-
tumes: medieval. The book contains many helpful suggestions for
production. Royalty $5 or $10. French.

McKinnel, Norman

28. The Bishop's Candlesticks

Costume drama. Parts: 3 men, 2 women. Scene: interior. Cos-
tumes: Napoleonic period. Story of good bishop and Jean Valjean
in Les Miserahles. French.

Mapes, Victor

29. A Flower of the Yeddo

Japanese comedy. 30 minutes. Parts: i man, 3 women. Small
royalty. French.

Marks, Jeannette

30. The Welsh Honeymoon

25 minutes. Parts: 3 men, 2 women. Scene: a Welsh kitchen. The
plot is slight but the comedy is delightful. For permission to play,
apply to author, care of Little, Brown.

31. The Merry Cuckoo

Pathetic. 30 minutes. Parts: 3 men, 2 women. Scene: garden
with cottage. Shows old woman's devotion to her husband. Much
of the charm lies in the Welsh atmosphere. For permission to act
apply to author, care of Little, Brown.

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Meilhac and Halevy

32. Indian Summer

A classic of the Comedie-Frangaise, done into English by Barrett
H. Clark. 30 minutes. Parts: 2 men, 2 women. Scene: interior.
Costumes: modern. French.

DE MiLLE, Wm. C.

33. Food

Satire on high cost of living. Mock tragedj'. 20 minutes. Parts:
2 men, i woman. Scene: dining-room. Small royalty. French.

Parker, Louis N.

34. A Minuet

Play in rhyming couplets. 20 minutes. Parts: i man, i woman.
Scene: gaoler's room in the Conciergerie. Costumes: Louis Seize.
An aristocrat and his wife are reunited before going to the guillotine.

Sudermann, Herimann

35. The Far Away Princess

Charming comedy. I hour. Parts: 2 men, 7 women. Scene: in-
terior of an inn. Costumes: modern. No royalty. French.

Tcheckoff, Anton

36. A Marriage Proposal

Farcical comedy. Parts: 2 men, i woman. Scene: interior. Cos-
tumes: Russian. A betrothal comes off with difficulty because of
the lively differences of opinion between prospective bride and
groom. French.

Tennyson, Alfred

37. The Falcon

Poetic dramatization. 30 minutes. Parts: 2 men, 2 women.
Scene: an Italian cottage. The familiar story of the knight who
sacrifices his falcon for his lady. No royalty. Any edition of
Tennyson's poems.

Walker, Stuart

38. Nevertheless

Scene: "upstairs." Time: 20 minutes. Parts: i man, i boy, i girl.
Fanciful story of reformation of burglar. In Portmavleau Plays.
Rights reserved.

39. Six Who Passed While the Lentils Boiled

35 minutes. Parts: 6 men, 2 women. Scene: kitchen interior. Cos-
tumes: medieval. The most popular of the Porlmanteau Plays.
Highly recommended. Rights reserved. Stewart Kidd Co.

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Watts, Mary S.

40. The Wearin' 0' the Green

Farce. 30 minutes. Parts; 1 1 men, 7 women, any number of extras.
Scene: interior. Costumes: fancy dress, all Irish. Amusing burglar
scene at fancy dress ball. Rights reserved. Macmillan.

Yeats, William Butler

41. The Land of Heart's Desire

Poetic play of Irish folklore. 30 minutes. Parts: 3 men, 3 women.
Scene: cottage. Costumes: peasant. In Plays for the Irish Theatre.

42. A Pot of Broth

25 minutes. Parts: 2 men, i woman. Scene: cottage kitchen.
Amusing story of beggar's outwitting a stingy woman. In The Hour
Class and Other Plays. Macmillan

B. LONG PLAYS

Austen, Jane

1. Pride and Prejudice

Dramatized by Mrs. Steele MacKaye. Comedy. Full evening.
May be cut to 2 hours. Parts: 10 men, 10 women. Costumes:
late 1 8th century. Minuets may be introduced at end of scenes 2
and 4. Has been given with great success by high school students.
Permission to act must be obtained from publishers. Dufifield.

Barrie, Sir James

2. Alice-Sit-hy-the-Fire

EngHsh comedy. 3 acts. Parts: 4 men, 5 women. Scenes: 3 inte-
riors. Mother returns from India to find her two children considering
themselves grown up. Delightfully treated in Barrie's manner.
Royalty $50. For permission to play, apply to Sanger & Jordan,
Times Building, N. Y.

3. The Admirable Crichton

English comedy. 4 acts. Parts: 10 men, 11 women. Scenes: 3
interiors, i exterior. Costumes: modern. Satire on English class
distinctions. Moderately difficult. Royalty $50. For permission
to act, apply to Sanger & Jordan.

4. A Kiss for Cinderella

Whimsical comedy. 3 acts. Parts: 3 men, 3 women, many extras.
Scenes: 3 interiors. Costumes: modern, also fancy dress. Story of
modern Cinderella. Difficult. Royalty $50. For permission to act
apply to Sanger & Jordan.

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5. Quality Street

English comedy. 4 acts. Parts: 7 men, 6 women. Costumes: early
Victorian. A moderately difficult and thoroughly charming play.
Royalty $50. For permission to act apply to Sanger & Jordan.

Beaumont and Fletcher

6. The Knight of the Burning Pestle

Comedy. 5 acts. 2^ hours. Parts: 19 men, 5 women, attendants.
An ingenious handling of the play within a play. A romantic love
story interrupted by a farce element. Can be cut to ordinary
length. An Elizabethan play well worth doing. Duffield.

Bennett, Arnold and Edward Knobloch

7. Milestones

Play in 3 acts. Parts: 9 men, 6 women. Scene: same interior with
changes of furniture. Action ranges from 1860-1912, showing the
radicals of one generation as the conservatives of the next. For
permission to act, address publisher. Doran.

Bridges, Robert

8. Achilles in Scyros

Parts: 5 men, 2 women, chorus of Greek maidens. Costumes:
Greek. Scenes: gardens of palace on island of Scyros. Plot is based
on the discovery by Odysseus of the identity of Achilles, who has
been brought up as a maiden. In Robert Bridges' Poems, Vol. 3.
Elder, Smith & Co.

Burrell, Edgar White

9. Master Skylark

Arranged from John Bennett's story of the same name. 5 acts.

Shakespearian period. Parts: il men, 4 women, boys, guards,

courtiers, citizens. Scenes laid in Stratford and in London. Rights
reserved. Brentano.

Davis, Richard Harding

10. The Dictator

Farce. 2 acts. Long. Parts: 14 men, 3 women, extras. Scene:
republic in Central America. Revolution and counter-revolution.
Royalty $50. Scribner or French. Can be cut for high school use.

11. The Galloper

Farce in 3 acts. Difficult. Parts: 17 men, 4 women. Scenes: nu-
merous and difficult. Scenes during Graeco-Turkish War 1897.
Royalty $50. Scribner or F"rench.

Dix, Beulah M.

12. The Road to Yesterday

Melodramatic fantasy. 4 acts. Parts: 8 men, 6 women. Scenes:
3 interiors. Royalty. Sanger & Jordan.

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France, Anatole

13. The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife

Delightful comedy, i hour. Parts: 7 men, 4 women. One setting.
2 acts. Costumes: medieval. Pages, street-criers, etc. Dramatic
rights controlled by Granville Barker. Apply to John Lane Co.

Gaskell, Mrs.

14. Cranford

Dramatized by M. B. Home. 2 hours. Parts: 13 women. Scenes:
simple interiors. Costumes: simple, i8th century. Baker, Boston.
There is also a dramatization by Marguerite Merington.

Goldsmith, Oliver

15. She Stoops to Conquer

5 acts. Parts: 7 men, 3 women, extras. Costumes: i8th century.
Comedy based on incident in Goldsmith's own life. Baker,

Grundy, Sydny

16. A Pair of Spectacles

Comedy. 3 acts. Parts: 8 men, 3 women. Scene: simple interior
throughout. Well-known play much used by amateurs. Situation and
characters amusing. For permission to act, address publisher. French.

Hazelton, George C. and Benrimo

17. The Yellow Jacket

Parts: 17 men, 12 women. Scenes: interior of Chinese theatre.
Delightful play; difficult. Should be cut for school performances.
Royalty. Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis.

HoLBROOK, Richard

18. Master Pierre Patelin

Englished by Mr. Holbrook. 15th century farce which has been
revived with success. About i hour. Parts: 4 men, i woman,
archers, bailiffs, loiterers, etc. The setting has certain difficulties,
for it must show an interior and a street at the same time. The
action runs continuously. Rights reserved. Houghton Mifflin.

HousMAN, Lawrence

19. A Chinese Lantern

Comedy. 3 acts. Parts: 9 men, 2 women, street criers and mob.
Scene: interior Chinese studio. Whimsical satire on pseudo-art.
Royalty $25. Permission to act may be obtained from The Amer-
ican Play Co., 1451 Broadway, N. Y.

Housman, Lawrence and Granville Barker

20. Prunella

Whimsical fantasy. Parts: 11 men, 10 women, i boy. Scene: gar-
den with a house in the background. Love in a Dutch garden.
Royalty. French. •■

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Mason, A. E. W.

21. Green Stockings

English comedy. 4 acts. Can be done in one scene. Parts: 7 men,
5 women. Costumes: modern. Elder sister invents lover who be-
comes real. Royalty $25, payable to publisher. French.

Mayne, Rutherford

22. The Turn of the Road

A play in two scenes and an epilogue. Serious. Parts: 7 men, 3
women. Scene: one interior. One of the male parts calls for skill on
the violin. The play shows the struggle between a peasant boy's love
of music and his devotion to his family. French or Maunsel & Co.

MOLIERE

23. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Translated by Miss Margaret Baker, Parker High School, Chicago,
111. 4 acts. Parts: 12 men, 4 women, dancers, musicians, etc. One
scene throughout. Excellent dialogue. Opportunity for music and
dancing. French.

Milton, John

24. Comus

Masque. Parts: 4 men, 2 women, attendants. Scenes: a wood, a
palace interior and a palace court. Students may make their
own arrangement. This masque is very beautiful when presented
out-of-doors.

NiRDLINGER, C. F.

25. The First Lady of the Land

Comedy. 4 acts. Parts: 11 men, 7 women, extras. Scenes: 3
interiors. Costumes: Colonial. Story of Dolly Madison. Royalty
$25. Baker. Author's agents. The Rumsey Play Co., Lyceum
Theatre BIdg., New York.

NoYES, Alfred

26. Sherwood

Poetic drama. 5 acts. Parts: 13 men, 6 women, boy. Puck,
Oberon, etc. The parts of Puck and of Oberon can be played by
girls. Fairies, serfs, peasants, an abbot, a baron, a novice. J Scenes:
Sherwood Forest, a garden, a market place. The story of Robin
Hood. F. A. Stokes.

27. Pandora (Ben Greet Production^)

Charming arrangement of the Pandora story.^ Parts: 6 men, 4
women, shepherds, maidens, etc. Scene: exterior garden. Cos-
tumes: Greek. Has been given sucessfully by casts composed entirely
of girls. Manuscript is in hands of the Ben Greet Company, Rid-
path Chautauqua Bureau, Boston, from whom permission to act
must be obtained.

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Parker, L. N.

28. Pomander Walk

Comedy. 3 acts. Parts: 10 men, 8 women. Costumes: i8th cen-
tury. One scene throughout, a narrow London thoroughfare. Entire
play centers on families living on this street. French.

Peabody, Josephine Preston

29. The Piper

Drama in verse. 5 acts. Parts: 13 men, 6 women, 5 children, peo-
ple of Hamelin, burghers, strollers, nuns, priests. Scenes rather
difficult but possible. Costumes: medieval. Story of Pied Piper of
Hamelin. For permission to act, apply to Mrs. J. P. Marks, through
Houghton Mifflin.

30. The Wolf of Gtihhio

Drama in verse. Story of St. Francis and the Wolf. Difficult but
well worth attempting. For permission to act, apply to Mrs. J. P.
Marks, through Houghton Mifflin.

Rostand, Edmond

3 1 . The Romancers

Romantic comedy. 3 acts. One scene, a garden. Parts: 5 men,

1 woman, attendants. Costumes: fanciful. Thoroughly charming
play. Very attractive out-of-doors. Good translation by Miss
Elizabeth Wallace, University of Chicago. Baker.

Sheridan, Richard

32. The Rivals

5 acts. Parts: 7 men, 4 women. Costumes: iSth century. One
of the most successful of the 18th century comedies. Great favorite
with Joseph Jefferson. Baker.

Tagore, Rabindranath

33. The Post Office

2 acts. Parts: 8 men, i boy, i girl. The part of Amal, the sick
child, could be taken by a girl. Scenes: one interior window with
street. Experiences of an invalid boy, who sees the world through
the window of his sickroom. All rights reserved. Macmillan.

Tarkington, Booth

34. Monsieur Beaucaire

Dramatized by Ethel Hale Freeman. Full evening. Parts: 8 men, 4
women, lords, ladies, attendants, etc. The play needs one very good
actor; otherwise it is not difficult. Small royalty. W. H. Baker. 1916.

Van Dyke, Henry

35. The House of Rimmon

4 acts. Parts: 9 men, 4 women, priests, attendants, etc. The story

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of the healing of Naaman by the prophet of Samaria at the interven-
tion of the captive Jewish maiden. Difficult setting and costuming.
Scribner.

Warren, M.J.

36. The Twig of Thorns

An Irish fairy play. 2 acts. ij4 hours. Parts: 6 men, 7 women.
Scene: one interior. Baker.

Wilde, Oscar

37. The Importance of Being Earnest

3 acts. Parts: 5 men, 4 women. Scenes: two rather elaborate in-
teriors and a garden. Costumes: modern. Witty, epigrammatic,
sophisticated. French.

Yeats, William Butler

38. The Countess Cathleen

Poetic drama of early Ireland. Full evening. Parts: 8 men, 3
women, peasants, angelical beings, spirits, fairies. Scenes: peasant's
cottage, interior of castle. Difficult, but very beautiful. Revised
edition of Yeats' Poems. Vol. 2. Macmillan, 1916.

C. DRAMATIZATION BY STUDENTS

The following list contains suggestions for dramatization
by students :

1. Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll

2. Arabian Nights

3. The Ballads

Lord Beichan and Susie Pye has been done successfully in pantomime.

4. The Christmas Carol and other scenes from Dickens.

There are several dramatic versions of The Christmas Carol. The
one published by Baker runs an hour and includes tableaux and
music. Parts: 6 men, 3 women.

5. The Idylls of the King. Tennyson

6. Old Pipes and the Dryad. Stockton

7. The Prince and the Pauper. Mark Twain

William Faversham acts in a dramatization of this story, but his ver-
sion is not entirely satisfactory.

8. The Rose and the Ring. Thackeray

The adaptation by J. B. Greenough, published by Baker, is in four
acts and plays one and a half hours. It requires 16 men, 5 women
and attendants. Much better adaptations could be made by the
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