The Immigrants: A Lyric Drama

(no dust jacket) [solid copy, some wear at corners, rubbing to cloth along spine]. In this "lyric drama," the playwright "has portrayed for us the incoming alien as a human being with elemental emotions, sympathies and tragedies like our own; presenting him first in his native land as the prey of greedy representatives of international business interests, and then as an incoming immigrant, moved -- like our own ancestors -- to cast in his lot with the land of freedom in the hope of better things." Although Percy MacKaye isn't much of a name to conjure with these days, in the early decades of the twentieth century he was a fairly big deal as both a playwright and a poet; most of his work was published or produced prior to 1920, although he lived until 1954. This particular piece, about an Italian immigrant, doesn't appear to have ever been given a New York staging, although about a dozen of his other works were.

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Publisher: B.W. Huebsch

Year: 1915

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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