Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/MacKaye, Percy

MACKAYE, PERCY, dramatist and poet; born in 1875 in New York, graduated from Harvard in 1897, and became a student at Leipsic, after traveling in Europe, he taught privately in New York and from 1904 has been engaged in dramatic work. His works include &ldquo;The Canterbury Pilgrims,&rdquo; a comedy (1903); &ldquo;A Modern Rendering into Prose of Chaucer's Tales&rdquo; (1904); &ldquo;Fenris the Wolf,&rdquo; a tragedy (1905); &ldquo;Jeanne d'Arc,&rdquo; a tragedy (1906); &ldquo;Sappho and Phaon&rdquo; (1907); &ldquo;The Scarecrow: a tragedy of the Ludicrous&rdquo; (1908); &ldquo;The Playhouse and the Play&rdquo; (1909); &ldquo;The Civic Theater&rdquo; (1912); &ldquo;The Present Hour&rdquo; (1914); &ldquo;Caliban&rdquo; (1916); &ldquo;Christmas Masque&rdquo; (1917); &ldquo;George Washington&rdquo; (1920).