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The Drama Review, Volume 20 - June 1976

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American Theatre

  • Percy MacKaye's Masque of Caliban (1916)

  • Mel Gordon
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    07 December 2021, pp. 93-107

  • Just as the widely-heralded American Pageant Movement began to show a decline in both artistry and general interest, Percy MacKaye, the already well-known playwright and poet, staged the gigantic spectacle Caliban on May 25, 1916 at New York City's Lewisohn Stadium. Although not the largest production of the pre-World War I period—MacKaye's collaboration with Thomas Wood Stevens, St. Louis, a Civic Masque (1914) utilized the participation of more than 7,000 St. Louis citizen-actors and was seen by nearly 500,000 spectators during its five-day run—MacKaye's Caliban was thought to be the most lavish and grandiose, as well as best documented, pageant of its time.

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Historical Section

  • Theatre of the Mechanized Grotesque. Roussel's Impressions of Africa

  • Abba Cherniack-Tzuriel
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    07 December 2021, pp. 108-123

  • Raymond Roussel's three Parisian productions of Impressions of Africa in the years 1911 and 1912 electrified many of the future Dadas and Surrealists, such as Guillaume Apollinaire and Francis Picabia, into what Duchamp called a “decisive shock.” Not only were Roussel's publicity and staging unusually lavish for an avant-garde production of its time, but the performance itself promoted an entirely new attitude toward the concept of primitive consciousness and machinery. As Duchamp wrote in 1950, “It is true that I am indebted to Raymond Roussel for having enabled me, from 1912, to think of something else instead of retinal painting.”

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  • THD volume 20 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    07 December 2021, pp. f1-f4
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    07 December 2021, pp. b1-b31
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  • THD volume 20 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

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    07 December 2021, pp. f1-f3
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