The Social Significance of the Modern Drama

In order to understand the social and dynamic significance of modern dramatic art it is necessary, I believe, to ascertain the difference between the functions of art for art's...

Poor _Nora_, who cannot understand why a daughter has no right to spare her dying father anxiety, or why a wife has no right to save her husband's life, is surely not aware of t...

_Katrine Stockmann_ is wiser than her husband. For he who has no might need hope for no right. The good _Doctor_ has to drink the bitter cup to the last drop before he realizes...

_Jean_, though the male is aroused in him, pleads with _Julie_ not to play with fire, begs her to return to her room, and not to give the servants a chance for gossip. And when...

_Magda._ H'm! I didn't reproach you. And now I will tell you why I owe you thanks. I was a stupid, unsuspecting thing, enjoying freedom like a runaway monkey. Through you I beca...

_John._ Yes, I feel that it will come some time--a relationship in which the human will preponderate over the animal tie. Animal will no longer be united to animal, but one huma...

For this there is no name but madness, And wicked madness. Yes. I speak the truth. Here stand I, Master, overcome with horror At the relentless cruelty of your heart. Now Satan,...

Maeterlinck realizes that there are certain grievances in society, iniquitous conditions which demand immediate solution, and that if we do not solve them with the readiest and...

But "Damaged Goods" contains more than an exposé of venereal disease. It touches upon the whole of our social life. It points out the cold-blooded indifference of the rich towar...

When _Annette_ is informed of the result of _Mme. Bernin's_ visit, the girl grows hysterical, and _Lucie_ learns that her little sister is about to become a mother. Under the pr...

_Mrs. Warren._ Yes.... She's living down at Winchester, now, close to the cathedral, one of the most respectable ladies there--chaperones girls at the country ball, if you pleas...

"Major Barbara" is one of the most revolutionary plays. In any other but dramatic form the sentiments uttered therein would have condemned the author to long imprisonment for in...

"In fast-falling daylight, _Falder_, in his stockings, is seen standing motionless, with his head inclined towards the door, listening. He moves a little closer to the door, his...

_Beatrice._ Yes. Oh, Alan! can't you see what a splendid sacrifice you have it in your power to make? Not only to do the right thing, but to give up so much in order to do it.

_Mary._ My son. You've lost everything you've had in the world. John's gone--and Richard--and Janet. They won't come back. You're alone now and getting old, with no one to come...

"Harvest" is a grim picture of civilization in its especially demoralizing effects upon the people who spring from the soil. The mock culture and shallow education which inspire...

_Treplef._ She is a psychological curiosity, is my mother. A clever and gifted woman, who can cry over a novel, will reel you off all Nekrassov's poems by heart, and is the perf...

---- Day and night screaks the saw cutting steel. Day and night in my ears the screeching of the saw cutting steel. All the dreams that I see, all the sounds and songs that I he...