Representative One-Act Plays by Continental Authors
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Excerpt from Representative One-Act Plays by Continental Authors: Selected, With Biographical Notes In the short space of time that the one-act play has flourished as a definite dramaturgic form, it has resulted in a surprising amount of good literature. Only a form that has vitality in itself can create so high a standard in so short a period. It was born of an atmosphere of experimentation; it does not count as its progenitor those short skits with which our fathers were regaled, either before or after the enactment of a tragedy. Nor can one believe that the fragments which have from time to time filled our vaudeville programmes are quite in the same line of development. The long drama bears the same relationship to the one-act play that the novel does to the short story. In both instances there is similarity of detail, but difference of species; similarity of architecture, yet variance of plan and diversity of means; likeness of content, yet separate intensities. What it is that prompts a playwright to put his theme in a short form is partly inherent in him and partly woven into the theme itself. How often have we seen long plays, thin in narrative and motivation, spread lightly through three acts - often skilfully spread, but none the less attenuated, when they would have gained in strength and vividness by compression. It is a dangerous thing to make general statements about any form of literature; for exceptions may prove or disprove the rule. At one time it was thought that writing for children was merely a cutting down of the author´s genius to the limited comprehension of the child mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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