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Biography. MacKaye was born in New York City into a theatrical family. His father, Steele MacKaye, was a popular actor, playwright, and producer, while his mother, Mary, wrote a dramatization of Pride and Prejudice, first produced in 1910. His brother James MacKaye was a philosopher, while brother Benton MacKaye was a forester and conservationist.
Mar 25, 2024 · Percy MacKaye (born March 16, 1875, New York City, New York, U.S.—died August 31, 1956, Cornish, New Hampshire) was an American poet and playwright whose use of historical and contemporary folk literature furthered the development of the pageant in the U.S. MacKaye was introduced to the theatre at an early age by his father, actor Steele ...
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The Scarecrow is a play written by Percy MacKaye in 1908, and first presented on Broadway in 1911. It is based on Nathaniel Hawthorne 's short story, "Feathertop", but greatly expands upon the tale. Mackaye himself stated that he hoped that the play would not be taken as a dramatization of "Feathertop", since the intentions of the two works are ...
In 1921, Percy Wallace MacKaye, a playwright and poet, and his wife, Marion, stayed at Pine Mountain Settlement School while the two of them traveled about the surrounding Appalachian region to study and record the traditional tales and songs of the mountain people. By the time the MacKayes returned home, Percy had written plays, narrative ...
Presentation by Bruce Donehower, PhDThis 27-minute video is a recording of the presentation given at the June 11, 2022 meeting of the Section for the Literar...
Percy MacKaye (1875-1956) was an American dramatist and poet. After graduating from Harvard in 1897, he traveled in Europe for three years, residing in Rome, Switzerland, and London, studying at the University of Leipzig in 1899–1900.
Rare Materials. Percy MacKaye Papers, 1879-1956. Digital Highlights. Googlebooks: Uriel and Other Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 1912) Digitized from the Harvard Collection. Googlebooks: The Present Hour (MacMillan, 1914) Digitized from the Harvard Collection.
