Wild Birds, Vol. 1: A Play in Three Acts —— A Play in Three Acts

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ISBN: 9781330720158 出版年：2018 页码：102 Dan Totheroh Forgotten Books

All that these men needed was material. They wanted good plays. And the extraordinary thing was that they found them. Translation and imita tion gave them some. Invention gave them more. No one of these plays, it may be admitted, has quite the quality of Hamlet or King Oedipus. 'but ten fairly good plays are written now for one that was written thirty years ago and the result is due to the move ment that began in the 90's in England, the move ment to free the theatre from the tradition which makes it the substitute for the mediaeval cock-pit, and to reaffirm the tradition that makes it the great synthetic art through which the people in a mass can receive the highest emotional exaltation.