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2). 1 Frederic Dorr Steele for Arnold Bennett’s The Honeymoon (McClure’s 1911) comic nonesense. As well as conditioning the readers’ responses, illustrations also allowed readers to “edit” their choices and to be spared any surprises. The illustrations work in much the same way as the directed readings, eliminating any possibility for “incorrect” interpretation. When the illustrator was credited and established, the name also carried implications of associated cultural value for the play. For instance, Olive Tilford Dargan’s verse play, The Woods of Ida: A Masque in Century (1907), set forty years before the fall of Troy, is introduced by a “Greek” frieze and illustrated with three paintings by Sigismond de Ivanowski.
The illustrations for Gleason’s Signal Service show how a young man in evening dress should stand at ease against a fireplace mantel, how a flirting lady holds her fan, and 32 Plays in American Periodicals exactly how much distance should be maintained between a couple sharing a sofa. The illustrations to the play, therefore, serve two functions simultaneously, one dramatically situtational, the other prescriptively social. The illustrations accompanying the plays complement the cover art, the photographs, and the advertisements in the periodicals, all of which formed a dense network of images designed to convey social values.
There is very little physical description or stage business, the emphasis being almost solely on character and revealing the intentions, emotions, and anxieties expressed in 26 Plays in American Periodicals common speech and decorous behavior, but the plays are lively, have accessible characters and familiar discourse, and are brightened with humor. In Edith Wharton’s Copy: A Dialogue in Scribner’s (1900), an exercise in unspoken longings, two famous middle-aged writers parry about their romantic past together with the object of retrieving the love letters for their memoirs.