Quad Cities Writers: Early 20th Century

Arthur Davison Ficke: Plays

Ficke was best known for his poetry and his interest in art, but he did write some verse drama, and published a translation of a Dutch work by Herman Roelvink

Plays by Ficke

  • The Breaking of Bonds: A Drama of the Social Unrest (Boston, 1910) [Google Books]; (New York, 1915) [Google Books]
  • Mr. Faust (New York, 1913) [Google Books]; Mr. Faust: An Entirely New Version, Reconstructed for Stage Production (New York, 1922) [Archive.org]
  • The Road to the Mountain (1930)
  • The Ghost of Sharaku (1951)

Translations

  • The Stormbird, by Herman C. J. Roelvink, in Poetlore 24, no. 2 (Spring 1913) [Google Books]

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