The Flutter of the Goldleaf, and Other Plays


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This book is a collection of one-act plays penned by Olive Tilford Dargan and Frederick Peterson. Dargan was an American writer and poet, best remembered for 'Call Home the Heart' and 'A Stone Came Rolling' which were written as part of her 'Gastonia' novels. Peterson was an American neurologist and poet. He was also at the forefront of psychoanalysis in the United States, publishing one of the first articles of Freud and Jung's theories of Free Association. The two collaborated in writing four titles in total: 'The Flutter of the Goldleaf', 'The Journey', 'Everychild', and 'Two Doctors at Akragas'.




The Flutter of the Goldleaf


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Semiramis, and Other Plays


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The following book is a collection of plays written by Olive Tilford Dargan. A total of three plays are to be found inside this book, bearing the following titles: 'Semiramis', 'Carlotta', and 'The Poet'. The first play is based on the life of Semiramis, the mythological Lydian-Babylonian wife of Onnes and Ninus, who succeeded the latter to the throne of Assyria, as in the fables of Movses Khorenatsi.




The Flutter of the Goldleaf, and Other Plays


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The Flutter of the Goldleaf, and Other Plays by Olive Tilford Dargan and Frederick Peterson




The Mortal Gods, and Other Plays


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This is a collection of plays written by Olive Tilford Dargan. She was a writer and a poet. Her early works revolved around mountain poetry. Her works were inspired by her love of mountains and nature. Later in her career, she published books that focuses on racism, sexism, and fascism through her feminist visions of political activism and romanticism. This volume contains the following plays: "The Mortal Gods" - "A Son of Hermes" - "Kidmir"







The Flutter of the Goldleaf; And Other Plays


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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.




An Index to One-act Plays


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Plays written in English or translated into English; Published since 1900 Cover title: Index to one-act plays for stage, radio, and television.




Play Index


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