CONTENTS The Principles of Playmaking How to Write a Play On Putting Literature into the Drama Three Theorists of the Theater If Shakespeare Should Come Back Shakespearian Stage-Traditions The Pleasant Land of Scribia "Hamlet" with Hamlet Left Out Situations Wanted The Playwright and the Player Irish Plays and Irish Playwrights The Conventions of the Music-Drama The Simplification of Stage-Scenery The Vocabulary of the Show-Business Matthew Arnold and the Theater Memories of Edwin Booth At the time of original publication in 1916, Brander Matthews was Professor of Dramatic Literature in Columbia University, and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.