Word: dramas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...best hopes for an American drama lie in the eager curiosity of the people; in our large cosmopolitanism of race and feeling; in the high rewards we are prepared to pay for best examples of any kind of art. Another hopeful sign for the American national drama is the interest taken in it by the leading universities. Mr. Brander Matthew's books have been the soundest and sanest contributions to Anglo-American dramatic literature. In addition to his works there is the splendid and unique work, unique in regard to university teaching, by Professor Baker at this University, Professor Phelps...
...proposed to bring the American drama into alliance with American literature? There is no great body of such literature, because there are not at the present moment in our national life those necessary underlying conditions, that prepare the soil. Consequently, for the same reasons we have no national drama. These underlying conditions, however, may come into being within a comparatively short time...
Having searched out the aim and goal of a national theatre, it would be well to run over the duties of such a theatre. The first duty of national theatre is obviously to protect the commercial side of the enterprise until the national theatre and the national drama are so firmly established in popular favor and comprehension as to pay their own way. Another duty is to provide machinery for keeping alive such plays of literary value and artistic workmanship as may not immediately catch the ear of the great public, but which yet have signs of future life...
...talent in the University is self-evident. Each of the six societies can produce but very few really capable actors. These men take the principal parts in their respective plays with the result that the remaining roles are but indifferently filled. Moreover, the number of patrons of the College drama is necessarily limited. The greater the number of productions to support, the smaller will be the portion to each. Adequate financial returns are essential if a high standard is to be maintained...
...Fair Maid of the West" is a romantic drama dealing with the fortunes of Bess Bridges and her lover, Captain Spencer. The scenes shift rapidly from English taverns to Spanish galleons and pirate ships, and to the coast of Morocco. The play is characterized by skilfully drawn contrasts between familiar events of English domestic life and the romantic episodes of sea-roving and foreign travel...