Plays of the Ridings (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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This little volume of Yorkshire dialect plays is meant to be a sequel to the volume of dialect verse, entitled Songs of the Ridings, which I published a year ago. My former purpose was to furnish poems which might be read in the cottage and recited or sung at social gatherings of the people. My appeal now is to the peasant or artisan actor, and my hope is that I may do something to quicken an interest in dramatic art in Yorkshire and help in the establishment of folkfestivals of song and dance and drama throughout the towns and villages of the three Ridings.

"Back to the land" is the slogan of to-day, but it will soon degenerate into a meaningless parrotcry, unless steps are taken to make life on the land worth living. Parliament may put up cottages for the peasant, fix a standard wage for him or establish him in a small-holding; but, having spiritual needs, he cannot live on bread and bricks alone. The war has stimulated his imagination, and, by bringing him from the cottage to the camp, has deepened his need of comradeship; and it is in providing opportunities for comradeship and the free play of the imagination that the village life of England to-day fails most of all.

Those of us whose acquaintance with the countryside is mainly confined to a summer holiday bring back into the towns a false impression of the peasant's life.

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