audiobook

The evergreen tree

by Percy MacKaye

EN·~1 hours·25 chapters

Chapters

25 total

WORKS BY PERCY MACKAYE

2:16

PREFACE

3:16

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

0:35

PERSONS AND GROUPS In the Order of their Appearance

1:03

CHORUSES AND CAROLS

1:36

THE COMMUNITY CHORUS

0:10

TIME AND PLACE

0:46

From the Gospel of Saint Matthew: Chapter II

1:28

THE EVERGREEN TREE - FIRST ACTION (“Who Keepeth Watch?”)

4:30

SECOND ACTION (The Lantern in the Desert)

1:08

Description

Added title page: The evergreen tree: a masque of Christmas time for community singing and acting, by Percy MacKaye, with scenic and costume designs by Robert Edmond Jones; together with three monographs on the masque written by the author, the scenic designer, and Arthur Farwell, composer of the music.

Details

Language

Duration

~1 hours (75K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: D. Appleton & Company, 1917.

Credits

Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2023-04-07

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Christmas plays Masques

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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