Word: strafford
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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 last, although never produced on the stage, Mr. Hapgood considers the most dramatic of them...