A NIGHT IN AVIGNON
By
CALE YOUNG RICE
_Successfully produced by Donald Robertson_
"It is as vivid as a Page From Browning. Mr. Rice has the dramatic pulse." _James Huneker._
"It embraces in small compa.s.s all the essentials of the drama." _New York Sat.u.r.day Times Review (Jessie B. Rittenhouse)._
"It presents one of the most striking situations in dramatic literature and its climax could not be improved." _The San Francisco Call._
"It has undeniable power, and is a very decided poetic achievement."
_The Boston Transcript._
"It leaves an enduring impression of a soul tragedy." _The Churchman._
"Since the publication of his "Charles di Tocca" and other dramas, Cale Young Rice has justly been regarded as a leading American master of that difficult form, and many critics have ranked him above Stephen Phillips, at least on the dramatic side of his art. And this judgment is further confirmed by "A Night in Avignon." It is almost incredible that in less than 500 lines Mr. Rice should have been able to create so perfect a play with so powerful a dramatic effect." _The Chicago Record-Herald (Edwin S. Shuman)._
"There is poetic richness in this brilliant composition; a beauty of sentiment and grace in every line. It is impressive, metrically pleasing and dramatically powerful." _The Philadelphia Record._
"It offers one of the most striking situations in dramatic literature."
_The Louisville Courier-Journal._
"The publication of a poetic drama of the quality of Mr. Rice"s is an important event in the present tendency of American literature. He is a leader in this most significant movement, and "A Night in Avignon" is marked, like his other plays, by dramatic directness, high poetic fervor, clarity of poetic diction, and felicity of phrasing." _The Chicago Journal._
"It is a dramatically told episode, and the metre is most effectively handled, making a welcome change for blank verse, and greatly enhancing the interest." _Sydney Lee._
"Many critics, on hearing Mr. Bryce"s prediction that America will one day have a poet, would be tempted to remind him of Mr. Rice." _The Hartford (Conn.) Courant._
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YOLANDA OF CYPRUS
A Poetic Drama by
CALE YOUNG RICE
"It has real life and drama, not merely beautiful words, and so differs from the great ma.s.s of poetic plays." _Prof. Gilbert Murray._
Minnie Maddern Fisk says: "No one can doubt that it is superior poetically and dramatically to Stephen Phillips"s work," and that Mr.
Rice ranks with Mr. Phillips at his best has often been reaffirmed.
"It is encouraging to the hope of a native drama to know that an American has written a play which is at the same time of decided poetic merit and of decided dramatic power." _The New York Times._
"The most remarkable quality of the play is its sustained dramatic strength. Poetically it is frequently of great beauty. It is also lofty in conception, lucid and felicitous in style, and the dramatic pulse throbs in every line." _The Chicago Record-Herald._
"The characters are drawn with force and the play is dignified and powerful," and adds that if it does not succeed on the stage it will be "because of its excellence." _The Springfield Republican._
"Mr. Rice is one of the few present-day poets who have the steadiness and weight for a well-sustained drama." _The Louisville Post (Margaret Anderson)._
"It has equal command of imagination, dramatic utterance, picturesque effectiveness and metrical harmony." _The London (England) Bookman._
_T. P."s Weekly_ says: "It might well stand the difficult test of production and will be welcomed by all who care for serious verse."
_The Glasgow (Scotland) Herald_ says: "Yolanda of Cyprus is finely constructed; the irregular blank verse admirably adapted for the exigencies of intense emotion; the characters firmly drawn; and the climax serves the purpose of good stagecraft and poetic justice."
"It is well constructed and instinct with dramatic power." _Sydney Lee._
"It is as readable as a novel." _The Pittsburg Post._
"Here and there an almost Shakespearean note is struck. In makeup, arrangement, and poetic intensity it ranks with Stephen Phillips"s work." _The Book News Monthly._
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DAVID
A Poetic Drama by
CALE YOUNG RICE
"I was greatly impressed with it and derived a sense of personal encouragement from the evidence of so fine and lofty a product for the stage." _Richard Mansfield._
"It is a powerful piece of dramatic portraiture in which Cale Young Rice has again demonstrated his insight and power. What he did before in "Charles di Tocca" he has repeated and improved upon.... Not a few instances of his strength might be cited as of almost Shakespearean force. Indeed the strictly literary merit of the tragedy is altogether extraordinary. It is a contribution to the drama full of charm and power." _The Chicago Tribune._