MacKaye, Percy [Wallace]
MacKaye, Percy [Wallace]( 1875–1956),son of Steele MacKaye, was born in New York City, and after graduation from Harvard (1897) and teaching school began to write poetry and plays. The Canterbury Pilgrims (1903) deals with an imaginary sentimental episode between Chaucer and the Prioress, and was made into a libretto for an opera by De Koven (1917). MacKaye wrote two other blank-verse plays, Jeanne d'Arc (1906) and Sappho and Phaon (1907). The Scarecrow (1908) is a prose play based on a story by Hawthorne. His first play with a modern subject, Mater (1908), was a comedy of American politics, while Anti-Matrimony (1910) was a satire on the influence of continental playwrights upon naïve Americans, and Tomorrow (1913) was a problem play about eugenics. Yankee Fantasies (1912) is a series of one-act plays about New England life. Rip Van Winkle (1920) is a libretto for a De Koven opera,...
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