Caliban by the Yellow Sands: A Community Masque of the Art of the Theatre

BY
Percy MacKaye

Garden City New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1916

ENDORSED BY THE DRAMA LEAGUE OF AMERICA


Copyright, 1916, by
Percy MacKaye

All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian

All acting rights, and motion picture rights, are reserved
by the author in the United States, Great Britain
and countries of the copyright Union

SPECIAL NOTICE
Regarding Public Performances and Readings

No performance of this Masque—professional or amateur—and no public reading of it may be given without the written permission of the author and the payment of royalty.

The author should be addressed in care of the publishers.

During the Shakespeare Tercentenary season of 1916, the Masque—after its New York production at the City College Stadium, May 23, 24, 25, 26, 27—will be available for production elsewhere, on a modified scale of stage performance.

With proper organization and direction, amateur participants may take part in performances with or without the Interludes.

For particulars concerning performances wholly amateur, address Miss Clara Fitch, Secretary Shakespeare Tercentenary Committee, 736 Marquette Building, Chicago, Ill.

After June first, a professional company, which will coÖperate with local communities, will take the Masque on tour. For particulars address Miss A. M. Houston, Drama League of America, 736 Marquette Building, Chicago, Ill.


CALIBAN

BY THE YELLOW SANDS

A COMMUNITY MASQUE
Of the Art of the Theatre

Devised and Written to Commemorate the
Tercentenary of the Death of
SHAKESPEARE

Illustrations by
Joseph Urban & Robert Edmond Jones

TO · THE · ONLIE
BEGETTER · OF · THE · BEST
IN · THESE · INSUING
SCENES · MASTER · W · S


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND CHARTS

Cover Design: “When the kings of earth clasp hands”
  (Act II, Second Inner Scene).
  By Robert Edmond Jones.
 
Preliminary Sketch of Setebos.
  By Joseph Urban
Frontispiece
  facing page
Ground Plan for Auditorium (with Stages
  of Masque Proper and Interludes).
  By Joseph Urban
xxx
Design of Stage for Masque Proper.
  By Joseph Urban
xxxii
Preliminary Sketch for Seventh Inner Scene.
  By Robert Edmond Jones
98
Preliminary Sketch for Tenth Inner Scene.
  By Robert Edmond Jones
138
APPENDIX
Inner Structure of Masque (Chart).
  By Percy MacKaye
154
A Community Masque Audience (Photograph).
  By E. O. Thalinger
156
Community Masque Organization Plan (Chart).
  By Hazel MacKaye
158

CONTENTS

page
Preface xiii
Masque Structure xxix
Persons and Presences    xxxi
Prologue  3
First Interlude 32
Act I 34
Second Interlude 76
Act II 78
Third Interlude 110
Act III 111
Epilogue 142
Appendix 147

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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