Word: realisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exercise of this archaic mode of expression, the drama continued until some 50 years ago, when there came the craze for realism. This, in its demand for photographic reproduction of life and its problems, which later evolved into the social drama of Ibsen and Galsworthy, ousted the spiritual element in the drama, killed imaginative dramatic writing, and was all of a piece with the growing materialistic tendency of the latter quarter of the nineteenth and the early years of the twentieth century...
...Wings (1926). Not all have been successful, financially. But Mr. Barry is a success. Confidently, he holds definite opinions: he must have a year in which to write a play; Terence is his idea of a good playwright; he refuses to limit himself to one or two special themes; realism, "a slice of life," means nothing in the theatre. He detests being described as "whimsical." Yet that adjective better than any other, perhaps, describes the art that is making enthusiastic audiences smile and sigh these fall evenings at the Booth Theatre...
...Realism. "His diaries are full of Rabelaisian details, the manure and realism of the stock-breeder's life, the amours of mares, the matings and misalliances of hounds whose pups he kills or saves...
Stark Young, who is one of the few popular critics to dare remain at all in the humanistic tradition, has written in the current Yale Review an article on Realism in the modern theatre. Here he tries to show that there is, in addition to and more important than the the exterior reality, the internal truth, the truth most akin to the universal. Here is departing not one whit from Aristotelian precepts. The Executive Editor of Liberty might read Stark Young's article. It may be more easily obtained on Park Avenue than the Poetics. At all events...
...some, "Lord Raingo" may appear a magnificent exposition of realism. But it is a case of homeopathic remedy administered in an allopathic dose. Mr. Bennett definitely crosses the line where realism merges into tautological flatulence. Elegence of style, felicity of phrase, restraint, suggestion these prerequisites to delight in reading, all are submerged in an ocean of microcosms, and uninteresting ones at that...