Word: realism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief critical interest in The Plough & the Stars was its comparison with Mr. O'Casey's fantastic Within the Gates, also playing in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 5). Consensus of cooler heads was that O'Casey's earlier realism had cards and spades over his later flights into the realm of theatrical fancy...
...much flotsam and some rare finds on literature's beach. A poet and a War veteran, Richard Aldington is neither trash nor treasure but an excellent example of a soundly second-rate writer. A poet by trade, Author Aldington has lately turned to satirical novels whose unenlightened realism makes good reading for those who like their humdrum with a seasoning of malice. Since English Author Aldington puts only his own countrymen in his pillory portraits, U. S. readers can gaze on them with a certain equanimity. Latest Aldington exhibit is the Emancipated Female, British style...
...Archer, an eminent English dramatic critic who was so imprudent as to publish a book. "The Old Drama and the New," ridiculing the Elizabethan dramatists. This work holds that many of the seventeenth century plays tend toward a childish over emphasis of the horror element, and contrasts the unpretentious realism of the modern stage. In spirited refutation, O'Casey tied Webster's "Ducieas of Malfi," and pointed out that the swords and bloody charnel-houses of Webster are no more to be taken seriously than the telephones and camisoled ladies seen on the boards today. Archer has based his arguments...
After disparaging modern "realism," the be spectacled, sharp featured dramatist expressed the need for a more poetic and elevated style of dialogue. He made several biting remarks on the critics' taste for "comfortable" plays, but graciously asserting that the stagnation of the contemporary stage is due, not to the stupidity of the audiences, but to the venality and spinelessness of the modern playwright. Questions at the close of the lecture were answered with flashing wit. Asked whether there was not a dearth of Irish plays, O'Casey pallied gracefully by remarking that dramatisis are turning out enough plays but they...
Bunin has attained a realism that many of his contemporaries strive to do by more circuitous means and psychological devices but his product is more natural, readable, and understanding...