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The Autobiography of a Play, by Bronson Howard
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Title: The Autobiography of a Play Papers on Play-Making, II
Author: Bronson Howard
Commentator: Augustus Thomas
Release Date: July 6, 2006 [EBook #18769]
Language: English
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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