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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913. Excerpt: ... I ARTHUR PINERO N the third act of the thirty-third play of--Hilary. Come, Mrs. Filmer! Let us believe, if we can--if it makes us better, and gentler, and more merciful!--let us believe that in all this there was the hand of God! Nina harshly. Very well; let us believe it. Looking him in the face defiantly and measuring her words. Only we must believe equally that it's the hand of God that has brought these letters from their hiding-place and has delivered them to me. Since this is to be an inquiry into drama, and not an inquiry into theology or philosophy, we must assume at the outset that it was not the hand of God that caused the first Mrs. Filmer Jesson and her lover to write mcriminating letters to one another while they were in the same house, that caused her to store them behind the loose boarding in a cupboard in her boudoir, that killed her in a carriage accident, and that delivered the letters three years later into the possession of her successor; but the hand of Sir Arthur Pinero. The Sir Arthur Pinero, we read: drama must have reality, but the first essential to our understanding of an art is that we should not believe it to be actual life. The spectator who shouts his warning and advice to the heroine when the villain is approaching is, in the theatre, the only true believer in the hand of God; and he is liable to find it in a drama lower than the best. Let us believe that it is the hand of Sir Arthur Pinero we are to talk about. And let us, for the moment, place on one side the fourteen or fifteen farces and comic plays, from The Schoolmistress and The Magistrate to A Wife without a Smile and Preserving Mr. Panmure. No one would think of looking for the hand of God in these. An inquiry into the serious art of this dramatist is an inquiry in...
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Minor shelf wear. Owner signature on front end paper. Otherwise a tight, unmarked book. 264 pp. Seller Inventory # 032421