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He was born on December 17, 1846 in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States, and was the son of Joseph Crocket and Susan (Meade) Price.
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He was born on December 17, 1846 in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States, and was the son of Joseph Crocket and Susan (Meade) Price.
His education in the public schools was interrupted by the Civil War. In 1867 he was sent by his parents to the University of Leipzig, Germany, and there and at Berlin he studied for three years.
He joined the Confederate army during the Civil War, serving with the cavalry raiders of Morgan, Forrest, and Wheeler. He was captured, imprisoned at Rock Island, and escaped.
Returning, he prepared to enter the profession of law, according to his father's wish, but his bent was toward letters instead, and he at length found work on the Louisville Courier-Journal, where he contracted a friendship with the great editor, Henry Watterson, which continued until the latter's death. From 1875 to 1880 Price was dramatic critic of the Courier-Journal.
It was during his earlier years that he wrote his only play, The Old Kentucky Home (which was not given a professional production), and a remarkable little book called Without Scrip or Purse (1883), a psychological study of the life and work of a locally famous mountain evangelist. He also wrote A Life of William Charles Macready (1894), which in his latter years he did not think worthy of mention.
He was dramatic critic of the New York Star in 1885-86, then was employed by A. M. Palmer, whose stock companies at the Union Square and Madison Square theatres were in their day the finest in America. For nearly twenty years he read plays for Palmer. From 1901 almost until his death he likewise did play-reading for Harrison Grey Fiske. Meanwhile, he was writing an occasional book, such as The Technique of the Drama (1892), and A Life of Charlotte Cushman (1894).
From 1912 to 1915 he conducted a magazine of scientific discussion of the drama and dramatic writing, entitled The American Playwright. He produced three more books - The Analysis of Play Construction and Dramatic Principle (1908), Why Plays Fail, a collection of first-night reviews written for the Theatre Magazine, to which he was a (usually anonymous) contributor for the last twenty years and more of his life, and The Philosophy of Dramatic Principle and Method. The last two were printed and used as textbooks but not generally circulated.
When he died in May 1920.
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He would not attempt to teach anybody who did not appear to be endowed with genius or talent, arguing that no human agency could impart such gifts.
Price never married.