Treasure Island (play)

Edward Emery as Long John Silver.
Tim Murphy as Bill Bones in the 1915 Broadway play Treasure Island.

Treasure Island is a play in four acts and ten scenes by Jules Eckert Goodman that is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel of the same name.[1] It was first published in 1915 by Samuel French, Inc.,[2] and was later included in the children's play anthology Another Treasury of Plays for Children (1926, Little, Brown and Company) which was edited by Montrose Jonas Moses.[3] While not the first stage adaptation of Stevenson's novel, it was the first adaptation to achieve critical and commercial success;[4] bringing both "fame and fortune" to its author.[5]

  1. ^ "' TREASURE ISLAND' IS NO END OF FUN; Goodman's Dramatization Is Rich with the Color and Spirit of the Story. AT THE PUNCH AND JUDY With Edward Emery and Frank Sylvester Excelling in a Needlessly Fragmentary Stage Version". The New York Times. December 2, 1915. p. 11.
  2. ^ Jules Eckert Goodman (1915). Treasure Island: A Play in Four Acts and Ten Scenes. Samuel French, Inc.
  3. ^ Shell 2009, p. 260.
  4. ^ Hamilton, Clayton (January 1916). "Stevenson on the Stage". The Bookman: 530.
  5. ^ Constance D'Arcy MacKay (April 1927). "Writing and Placing the Children's Play". The Writer. Vol. 39, no. 4. p. 130.