Percival Wilde
1 March 1887 – 19 September 1953
> Percival Wilde (New York City, 1 March 1887 –19 September 1953) was an American author and playwright who wrote novels and numerous short stories and one-act plays. He also authored a textbook on the theater arts. Native to New York City, Wilde graduated from Columbia University in 1906, and worked for a time as a banker. He began writing plays in 1912, and joined The Lambs Club in 1947. Wilde's plays were especially popular in the Little Theatre Movement.
Books
- Rogues in Clover
- The craftsmanship of the one-act play
- Embryo
- Three minute plays
- The great American drama
- The unseen host, and other war plays
- A Question of Morality
- The previous engagement
- Comrades in arms and other plays for little theatres
- The Inn of discontent
- Comrades in arms and other plays for little theatres
- Pawns
- The Beautiful Story
- Confessional And Other American Plays
- Blood of the martyrs
- Design for murder
- Glamour
- Kings in Nomania
- Interview
- Dawn
- Ordeal by battle
- A catalogue of plays
- The reckoning
- The Villain in the Piece
- The craftsmanship of the one-act play
- Bridge blackouts
- The devil's booth
- His return
- Over the teacups
- A house of cards
- Vignette
- Out of the mouths of ...
- His return
- The moving finger
- Confessional
- Finger of God
- According to Darwin
- Refund
- Comrades in arms
- The dyspeptic Ogre
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