Word: vivida
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...type characters dependent for effect on strong contrast, the brandy bottle, unnatural and strained diction, and false sentiment, de- fects present in diminishing quantity even in Robertson, as anyone who has seen 'Caste" knows. Prof. Watson never sneers at the audiences which found such plays reasonably satisfactory, provided that vivida vis were present; quite surprisingly he holds a brief for popular taste and decides that though "an English audience must be forcibly amused," it is useless to blame public taste, which would have appreciated a vital drama, had there been any. "The trend of theatrical vitality is, in the main...
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