Chapter I: Front Matter

WORKS BY PERCY MACKAYE

_DRAMAS_

THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS. A Comedy.
JEANNE D’ARC. A Tragedy.
SAPPHO AND PHAON. A Tragedy.
FENRIS THE WOLF. A Tragedy.
A GARLAND TO SYLVIA. A Dramatic Reverie.
THE SCARECROW. A Tragedy of the Ludicrous.
YANKEE FANTASIES. Five One-act Plays.
MATER. An American Study in Comedy.
ANTI-MATRIMONY. A Satirical Comedy.
TO-MORROW. A Play in Three Acts.
A THOUSAND YEARS AGO. A Romance of the Orient.
THE IMMIGRANTS. A Lyric Drama.

_MASQUES_

CALIBAN. A Shakespeare Masque.
SAINT LOUIS. A Civic Masque.
SANCTUARY. A Bird Masque.
THE NEW CITIZENSHIP. A Civic Ritual.

_POEMS_

THE SISTINE EVE, and Other Poems.
URIEL, and Other Poems.
LINCOLN. A Centenary Ode.
THE PRESENT HOUR.
POEMS AND PLAYS. In Two Volumes.

_ESSAYS_

THE PLAYHOUSE AND THE PLAY.
THE CIVIC THEATRE.
A SUBSTITUTE FOR WAR.

_AT ALL BOOKSELLERS_

Uniform with this volume
SAINT LOUIS: A CIVIC MASQUE

AS ENACTED BY 7,000 CITIZENS OF SAINT LOUIS

CALIBAN

CALIBAN
BY THE YELLOW SANDS

BY
PERCY MACKAYE

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1916

ENDORSED BY THE DRAMA LEAGUE OF AMERICA

_Copyright, 1916, by_
PERCY MACKAYE

_All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian_

_All acting rights, and motion picture rights, are reserved
by the author in the United States, Great Britain
and countries of the copyright Union_

SPECIAL NOTICE
Regarding Public Performances and Readings

No performance of this Masque—professional or amateur—and
no public reading of it may be given without the written
permission of the author and the payment of royalty.

The author should be addressed in care of the publishers.

During the Shakespeare Tercentenary season of 1916, the
Masque--after its New York production at the City College
Stadium, May 23, 24, 25, 26, 27--will be available for
production elsewhere, on a modified scale of stage
performance.

With proper organization and direction, amateur participants
may take part in performances with or without the Interludes.

For particulars concerning performances wholly amateur,
address Miss Clara Fitch, Secretary Shakespeare Tercentenary
Committee, 736 Marquette Building, Chicago, Ill.

After June first, a professional company, which will
coöperate with local communities, will take the Masque on
tour. For particulars address Miss A. M. Houston, Drama
League of America, 736 Marquette Building, Chicago, Ill.

“_Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands!_”
THE TEMPEST.

CALIBAN
BY THE YELLOW SANDS

_A COMMUNITY MASQUE
Of the Art of the Theatre_

Devised and Written to Commemorate the
Tercentenary of the Death of
SHAKESPEARE

_Illustrations by_
Joseph Urban & Robert Edmond Jones

TO · THE · ONLIE
BEGETTER · OF · THE · BEST
IN · THESE · INSUING
SCENES · MASTER · W · S

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND CHARTS

Cover Design: “When the kings of earth
clasp hands” (Act II, Second Inner
Scene). By Robert Edmond Jones.

Preliminary Sketch of Setebos.
By Joseph Urban _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE
Ground Plan for Auditorium (with
Stages of Masque Proper and
Interludes). By Joseph Urban xxx

Design of Stage for Masque Proper.
By Joseph Urban xxxii

Preliminary Sketch for Seventh Inner
Scene. By Robert Edmond Jones 98

Preliminary Sketch for Tenth Inner
Scene. By Robert Edmond Jones 138

APPENDIX
Inner Structure of Masque (Chart).
By Percy MacKaye 154

A Community Masque Audience
(Photograph). By E. O. Thalinger 156

Community Masque Organization Plan
(Chart). By Hazel MacKaye 158

CONTENTS

PAGE
PREFACE xiii
MASQUE STRUCTURE xxix
PERSONS AND PRESENCES xxxi
PROLOGUE 3
FIRST INTERLUDE 32
ACT I 34
SECOND INTERLUDE 76
ACT II 78
THIRD INTERLUDE 110
ACT III 111
EPILOGUE 142
APPENDIX 147