Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy

Steele MacKaye

1842–1894

A restless 19th-century theater innovator, he helped push American drama beyond melodrama with new ideas about acting, stagecraft, and performance. Alongside writing plays, he worked as an actor, director, teacher, and inventor, always trying to reinvent what the stage could do.