By PROF. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, JR., of Union College. With gilt top, $1.60
net.
Since this work first appeared in 1905, Maeterlinck's SISTER BEATRICE, THE
BLUE BIRD and MARY MAGDALENE, Rostand's CHANTECLER and Pinero's MID-CHANNEL
and THE THUNDERBOLT--among the notable plays by some of Dr. Hale's
dramatists--have been acted here. Discussions of them are added to this new
edition, as are considerations of Bernard Shaw's and Stephen Phillips'
latest plays. The author's papers on Hauptmann and Sudermann, with slight
additions, with his "Note on Standards of Criticism," "Our Idea of
Tragedy," and an appendix of all the plays of each author, with dates of
their first performance or publication, complete the volume.
_Bookman_: "He writes in a pleasant, free-and-easy way.... He
accepts things chiefly at their face value, but he describes
them so accurately and agreeably that he recalls vividly to mind
the plays we have seen and the pleasure we have found in them."
_New York Evening Post_: "It is not often nowadays that a
theatrical book can be met with so free from gush and mere
eulogy, or so weighted by common sense ... an excellent
chronological appendix and full index ... uncommonly useful for
reference."
_Dial_: "Noteworthy example of literary criticism in one of the
most Interesting of literary fields.... Provides a varied menu of
the most interesting character.... Prof. Hale establishes
confidential relations with the reader from the start.... Very
definite opinions, clearly reasoned and amply fortified by
example.... Well worth reading a second time."
_New York Tribune_: "Both instructive and entertaining."
_Brooklyn Eagle_: "A dramatic critic who is not just 'busting'
himself with Titanic intellectualities, but who is a readable
dramatic critic.... Mr. Hale is a modest and sensible, as well as
an acute and sound critic.... Most people will be surprised and
delighted with Mr. Hale's simplicity, perspicuity and
ingenuousness."
_The Theatre_: "A pleasing lightness of touch.... Very readable
book."
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