Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Master Flachsmann: Als Erzieher a Comedy in Three Acts
IT cannot be said with truth that we are a play reading people. In the bookshops of Paris the plays of Augier, in half-a-dozen volumes, take their place with the sets of popular authors. In London there is nothing parallel; although of late years readers have been attracted by the witty para doxes of Gilbert, Wilde, and Shaw, and, in a tran sient way, by the polished verse of Mr. Stephen Phillips. But these are scarcely cases in point; nor, again, is the endless procession of editions of Shakespeare - which are read much more for their poetry and thought than for their stagecraft and dramatic skill. Indeed, it might with some reason be contended that the only plays in English which are read with the dramatic eye are Sheridan's: that is, read with the eye which a dramatic critic would apply to a new play. Why this should be so, whether it is due to the dramatic inferiority of Eng lish plays, or to the disinclination of English readers to regard the drama as a fitting object of serious study, this is not the place to inquire.
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