The Scarecrow; or The Glass of Truth: A Tragedy of the Ludicrous by Percy MacKaye
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"The Scarecrow; or The Glass of Truth: A Tragedy of the Ludicrous" by Percy MacKaye is a play written in 1908. Based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Feathertop," it tells the story of a scarecrow brought to life by a witch and the Devil to seduce a young woman as revenge against her uncle. But the scarecrow develops genuine feelings of his own. When a magical mirror reveals his true nature, he must choose
between his artificial existence and something far more meaningful. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | MacKaye, Percy, 1875-1956 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Scarecrow; or The Glass of Truth: A Tragedy of the Ludicrous |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarecrow_(play) |
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Produced by Paul Marshall, Mary Glenn Krause, MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | American drama |
| Subject | Witches -- Drama |
| Subject | Devil -- Drama |
| Subject | Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Drama |
| Subject | Scarecrows -- Drama |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 57156 |
| Release Date | May 13, 2018 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 477 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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