Howard, Bronson, 1842-1908 / 2008-11-12 00:00:00

EBOOK THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PLAY ***


Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was
produced from scanned images of public domain material
from the Google Print project)




PAPERS ON PLAY-MAKING
II
The Autobiography of a Play
by
BRONSON HOWARD
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
AUGUSTUS THOMAS
Printed for the Dramatic Museum of Columbia University
_in the City of New York_
MCMXIV


CONTENTS

Introduction by Augustus Thomas
The Autobiography of a Play by Bronson Howard
Notes by B. M.


INTRODUCTION

The qualities that made Bronson Howard a dramatist, and then made him
the first American dramatist of his day, were his human sympathy, his
perception, his sense of proportion, and his construction. With his
perception, his proportion, and his construction, respectively, he could
have succeeded as a detective, as an artist, or as a general. It was his
human sympathy, his wish and his ability to put himself in the other
man's place, that made play-writing definitely attractive to him.
Read more


Parts: 1 2 3