Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Essay on the Drama
Since Aristotle wrote his famous treatise upon dramatic art innumerable works have been published covering every possible phase of its development, and such a necessary part of our lives has the drama become that today the daily press and other periodicals devote a very considerable part of their space to it and its criticism. This has encouraged a number of brilliant authors to essay this field of literature, with the result that certain of them have developed into able playwrights. However, competent critics are quite as rare as great dramatists, and much of the criticism published gives little more than the writer's personal opinion, without a reason, direct or indirect, for his conclusions. Thus much misstatement and false argument pass unchallenged, in which the average reader is partly to blame, for at best he has only vague ideas upon these subjects, and rarely the courage to defend his opinion upon them. Nevertheless, intelligent criticism is quite within the range of the average mind, and literary style is not necessary to establish a truth.
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