Youth, Vol. 16 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Youth, Vol. 16 The modern German drama in prose, more perhaps than the drama Of any age or country, has set itself the aim Of understanding the nature and the qualities/ Of human life. This effort, made and pursued with an almost consecrated earnestness, has necessarily tended to break the moulds into which the traditional art Of the theatre had been cast. We cannot too Often remind ourselves that that art made its selec tion from the material Of life not only under the limitations Of a few essential conventions, but Of many that were unmeaning and arbitrary. In ex treme cases it ceased to bear any relation to reality and became an artifice sustained only by its own fragile laws and living only during the brief and hec tic hours Of actual representation. Congreve is a great writer and Scribe a very small one. As imita tions or interpretations Of human life the plays Of neither have more meaning than a game Of billiards. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.