Abstract
Wade Curry teaches at Trenton State College, Trenton, New Jersey. 1The voluminous and uncatalogued MacKaye materials are stored at the Dartmouth College Library, referred to in these footnotes as D. C. L. After twenty-seven restless years, Steele MacKaye finally decided in 1869 upon a career as an actor and began his stu ies in Paris as a favorite pupil of Frangois Delsarte, the famous elocution teacher. He accepted Delsarte's exalted view of theatre, his mystical philosophy, and his natural and infallible laws of human expression2 which emphasized gesture and stance. Delsarte's laws gave MacKaye one method of expressing each emotion and relieved him of the bother-
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