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Percy MacKaye (1875–1956) was an American dramatist and poet . 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.
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.
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Learn about Percy MacKaye, a playwright and poet who studied and recorded Appalachian culture and language in 1921. He was a pioneer of civic theater and a member of a prominent artistic family.
Overview. Percy MacKaye. (1875—1956) Quick Reference. (1875–1956), American playwright, born in New York, educated at Harvard; he was the son of Steele Mackaye, an important figure in the modernization of nineteenth-century American theatre. Percy MacKaye wrote ...
U.S. dramatist and poet Percy MacKaye wrote numerous community entertainments known as masques and poetic plays, noted for their use of historical and contemporary folk literature. Through these works, MacKaye furthered the development of the pageant as a dramatic form in the United States.
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.
HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: Percy MacKaye: HOLLIS Catalog Subject Search: Percy MacKaye: 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.
