The Playhouse and the Play, and Other Addresses Concerning the Theatre and Democracy in America |
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... Drama of Democracy ( the latter published in The Columbia Uni- versity Quarterly , June , 1908 ) are addresses ... Drama is reprinted , by permission , from The North American Review for September , 1908 ; Art and Democracy is an address ...
... Drama of Democracy ( the latter published in The Columbia Uni- versity Quarterly , June , 1908 ) are addresses ... Drama is reprinted , by permission , from The North American Review for September , 1908 ; Art and Democracy is an address ...
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... DRAMA OF DEMOCRACY 87 · THE DRAMATIST AS CITIZEN 121 SELF - EXPRESSION AND THE AMERICAN DRAMA . . 155 ART AND DEMOCRACY SOME COMMENTS BY WAY OF EPILOGUE . 183 193 A DOZEN PROMPT NOTES A DOZEN PROMPT NOTES I EVER xiii.
... DRAMA OF DEMOCRACY 87 · THE DRAMATIST AS CITIZEN 121 SELF - EXPRESSION AND THE AMERICAN DRAMA . . 155 ART AND DEMOCRACY SOME COMMENTS BY WAY OF EPILOGUE . 183 193 A DOZEN PROMPT NOTES A DOZEN PROMPT NOTES I EVER xiii.
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... theatre has the future of our na- tive drama been so splendid and secure in promise as to - day . In this undoubted fact we may well take joy and courage ; yet we need not be blind to the true causes of the fact . The true causes for ...
... theatre has the future of our na- tive drama been so splendid and secure in promise as to - day . In this undoubted fact we may well take joy and courage ; yet we need not be blind to the true causes of the fact . The true causes for ...
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... Drama of Democracy — the drama as a fine art for the many . " VIII Page 103 . “ The highest potentiality of the drama can never be realized until the theatre - the drama's communal instrument — shall be dedicated to - public , not ...
... Drama of Democracy — the drama as a fine art for the many . " VIII Page 103 . “ The highest potentiality of the drama can never be realized until the theatre - the drama's communal instrument — shall be dedicated to - public , not ...
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... the millions and tens of millions . The ques- tion is : Shall the theatre educate those mil- lions right or wrong ? " Page 84 . INTRODUCTION THE INTRODUCTION HE vital problems which confront the drama 6 A DOZEN PROMPT NOTES.
... the millions and tens of millions . The ques- tion is : Shall the theatre educate those mil- lions right or wrong ? " Page 84 . INTRODUCTION THE INTRODUCTION HE vital problems which confront the drama 6 A DOZEN PROMPT NOTES.
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Page 90 - Gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs, by all motives, by all prophecy, by all preparation, to the American Scholar. We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe.
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Page 90 - Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these, but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, some of them 179
Page 89 - Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill.
Page 91 - We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds.
Page 89 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close.
Page 90 - God, find the earth below not in unison with these, but are hindered from action by so the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, some of them suicides. What is the remedy? They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding* to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come 40 round to him.
Page 211 - Each $1.50 net BY LAURENCE HOUSMAN • Bethlehem: A Musical Nativity Play $1.25 net BY HENRY ARTHUR JONES Mrs. Dane's Defence 75 cents net Michael and His Lost Angel 75 cents net Rebellious Susan 75 cents net Saints and Sinners 75 cents net...
Page 116 - Not a revival of old forms, not an emulation of Elizabethan blank verse, but a fresh imagining and an original utterance of modern motives which are as yet unimagined and unexpressed. Not a revival, but a new birth; not a restoration, but a renascence of poetic drama.