Sanctuary: A Bird Masque

by Percy MacKaye

EN·~47 minutes·9 chapters

Chapters

9 total

Transcriber’s Note:

0:17

SANCTUARY A Bird Masque

0:24

NOTE REGARDING PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC READING

1:43

FOREWORD

5:33

PERSONS OF THE MASQUE in the order of their appearance

0:39

THE PRELUDE

0:55

THE MASQUE

29:50

AFTERWORD

7:49

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

0:09

Description

"This masque was written for the dedication of the bird sanctuary of the Meriden bird club of Meriden, New Hampshire."--Foreword.

Details

Language

Duration

~47 minutes (45K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing, Mary Glenn Krause, MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2018-03-08

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Birds -- Drama Fairy plays

About the author

Percy MacKaye

1875–1956

An American dramatist and poet from a famously literary family, he wrote ambitious verse dramas, pageants, and poems that tried to bring art into public life. His work joined literary imagination with big civic ideas, making him a distinctive voice in early 20th-century American letters.

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