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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Henry Arthur Jones will lecture, by invitation of the English Department, in Sanders Theatre this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock, on "The Corner Stones of Modern Drama." This lecture, which is open to the public, affords an opportunity to hear a master of an art little understood and extremely hard to practice...
...late in the eighties, however, that Mr. Jones gained a permanent hold on the better class of the public by means of his "Juda" and "The Crusaders." In the last fifteen or sixteen years Mr. Jones and Mr. Pinero have shared the position of teachers in the Renaissance of English drama. He has treated a great variety of subjects principally, satirically, realistically, and always thoughtfully...
...theatre-goers since 1890 remember his successes in "The Case of Rebellious Susan," "The Rogue's Comedy," "The Liars," "The Maneuvers of Jane," and "Mrs. Dane's Defense." His insight into English life has steadily deepened, and his technique has become more assured. To his present mastery of technique, as much as to his knowledge of human motives is due his recent overwhelming success in New York with his last play, "The Hippocrites...
During these busy years of dramatic writing, he has always been willing to speak and write on the drama. He has ever argued for a wider acceptance of drama as an art and a literature, and for an honest treatment of whatever is essentially dramatic in English life today. In 1895 he collected his speeches and essays in a volume called "The Renaissance of the English Drama." The fruit of his experience since that time he is now putting into shape for a volume to bear the same title as this lecture, "The Corner Stones of Modern Drama...
...invitation of the Department of English Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, the well-known English dramatist, will deliver a lecture on "The Corner Stones of Modern Drama" in Sanders Theatre tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The lecture will be open to the public...