Festival plays : one-act pieces for New Year's day, St. Valentine's day,…
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"Festival Plays: One-Act Pieces for New Year's Day, St. Valentine's Day, Easter, All Hallow'e'en, Christmas, and a Child's Birthday" by Marguerite Merington is a collection of one-act plays written in the early 20th century. This compilation focuses on various holidays, offering a creative and theatrical exploration of themes associated with celebration and festivity. Each play appears designed to capture the essence of the celebratory occasion, utilizing characters and stories that resonate with
the spirit of those specific festivals. At the start of the work, the play “Father Time and His Children” introduces Father Time as the central character and his twelve children, each representing the months of the year. The scene is lively, filled with song and dance as the months present themselves to the audience, each embodying unique characteristics corresponding to their time. The engaging dialogue highlights the playful nature of these personifications, setting a whimsical tone as Time humorously reflects on the passage of time and its significance. This opening segment establishes a blend of humor and festivity that characterizes the collection, setting the stage for the varied themes of the subsequent plays involving joy, love, and reflection. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Merington, Marguerite, 1857-1951 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 13025313 |
| Title | Festival plays : one-act pieces for New Year's day, St. Valentine's day, Easter, All Hallowe'en, Christmas and a child's birthday |
| Original Publication | New York: Duffield & Company, 1913. |
| Contents | Father Time and his children (New Year's day) -- Tertulla's garden, or The miracle of good St. Valentine (Valentine's day) -- The seven sleepers of Ephesos (Easter) -- Princess Moss Rose (for every child's birthday) -- The testing of Sir Gawayne (Hallowe'en) -- A Christmas party (Christmas). |
| Credits | Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 86.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | One-act plays, American |
| Subject | Children's plays, American |
| Subject | Holidays -- Juvenile drama |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 74498 |
| Release Date | Sep 30, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 278 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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