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...Norman Hapgood contributes a lengthy criticism of "Browning as a Dramatist." Though the article is landatory, the author acknowledges that Browning lacked many qualities of a successful dramatist. He does not submit with good grace to the necessary machinery of the stage, and lacks also constructive power: his plots are strong in general conception, but weak in matters of detail. Mr. Hapgood then proceeds to examine Browning's dramas, beginning with the less important ones and passing thence to those which may really be called acting plays, Strafford, A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, and the Return of the Druses. This...
...painter, but as he grew older he was led through by philosophy into his proper field, tragic poetry. But the knowledge he had acquired when a painter, and the ability thereby gained of better appreciating the whole scope of art were of the greatest value to him as a dramatist. Through all his great tragedies he is constantly viewing things with a painter's eye, which gives to them a greater unity and a higher artistic merit. All of the dramas of Euripides, with one exception, were composed after the completion of that marvel of architecture, the Parthenon...
...Study in Swinburne," the last prose article, is a literary criticism of that gentleman as a dramatist, a writer of lyrical poetry, and as a critic of poetry. The article is carefully written and is doubtless of great interest to students of Swinburne. To other readers it cannot be expected to appeal...
...very long ago college students received no official encouragement to enter into researches concerning theatrical matters. But things have changed somewhat. Mr. Bronson Howard, the leading American dramatist, has been telling the Harvard boys how to write plays, and Mr. Henry Irving is expected soon to tell the Oxford boys how to act them, while the Princeton boys have a prosperous dramatic club of their own, which gives public performances with great eclat. - Harpers Weekly...
These laws as they impressed themselves upon the play, were mainly those of the human sympathies and prejudices; and in order to be successful, the dramatist must study their effects, even though he cannot analyse their elements...