Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
The play is a form of story telling, among several such forms: the short story, or tale; the novel; and in verse, the epic and that abbreviated version of it called the ballad. All of them, each in its own fashion, is trying to do pretty much the same thing, to tell a story. A...
We have now surveyed the chief elements involved in the making of a play and suggested an intelligent attitude on the part of the play-goer toward them. Primarily the aim has be...
6. CHAPTER VWe have noted that Ibsen's plays began to get a hearing in England in the eighteen nineties. In fact, it was in 1889 that Mr. J. T. Grein had the temerity to produce at his Inde...
3. CHAPTER IIIThe recent vogue of plays like _The Servant in the House_, _The Passing of the Third Floor Back_, _The Dawn of To-morrow_, and _Everywoman_ sends the mind back to the early hist...
2. CHAPTER IICertain remarks at the close of the preceding chapter hint at what is in mind in giving a title to the present one. The play, this democratic mode of story telling, attracting v...
10. CHAPTER IXWith the play properly introduced in act one, and the development carried forward upon that firm foundation in the following act or acts, the playwright approaches that part of...
11. CHAPTER XTo one who is watchful in his theater seat, it must have become evident that many plays, which in the main give pleasure and seem successful, have something wrong with the last...
1. CHAPTER IThe play is a form of story telling, among several such forms: the short story, or tale; the novel; and in verse, the epic and that abbreviated version of it called the ballad....
9. CHAPTER VIIIThe story being properly started, it becomes the dramatist's business, as we saw, so to advance it that it will develop naturally and with such increase of interest as to tighte...
7. CHAPTER VIWe may now come directly to a consideration of the play regarded as a work of art and a piece of life. After all, this is the central aim in the attempt to become intelligent in...
8. CHAPTER VIISo far we have considered the material of the dramatist, his theme and subject matter, and his attitude toward it. But his method in conceiving this material and of handling it...
5. Chapter III) will be found in Professor Baker's _Development ofShakespeare as a Dramatist_ and Professor Matthews' _Shakespeare as a Playwright_. The general reader will find in The Mermaid Series of plays good critical treatment of the mai...
4. CHAPTER IVPreparedness in the appreciation of a modern play presupposes a knowledge of the origin and early development of English drama, as briefly sketched in the preceding pages. It al...