Bax at­tend­ed Slade and Hea­ther­ly Art Schools, and com­plet­ed his school­ing in Ger­ma­ny. He found­ed the Phoe­nix So­ci­e­ty (1919-26) to re­vive Eliz­a­be­than and Res­tor­a­tion dra­mas. His works in­clude:

• The Poetasters of Is­pa­han, 1912
• The Mar­ri­age of the Soul, 1913
• Shakespeare, with Har­old Ru­ben­stein, 1921
• Polly, adapt­ed from John Gay, 1922
• The In­sect Play, with Ni­gel Play­fair, 1923
• Midsummer Mad­ness, 1924
• Up Stream, 1925
• Mr. Pepys 1926
• Rasputin, 1929
• Socrates, 1929
• The Im­mor­tal Lady, 1930
• The Ve­ne­tian, 1931
• The Rose With­out a Thorn, 1932
• Ap­ril in Au­gust, 1934
• Golden Ea­gle, 1946
• The Bud­dha, 1947
• Day, a Night and a Mor­row, 1948
• The Re­lapse, 1950

• Bailey, pp. 473-4

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