Dante: A Dramatic Poem (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Some years ago a copy of this play came to me for criticism. I began to read it with a certain misgiving - so very many plays in many languages had been written around the same subject and so very few of them had been successful from both a dramatic and a literary point of view. The difficulty is perfectly obvious: most of the writers had been lovers of Dante first and dramatists after, and in an attempt to give truthful expression to the life of the man the absolute requirements of the theatre had been quite ignored. There is no greater human tragedy than that connoted by the life of the Florentine and yet the known elements in it, while lending themselves readily to literary, moulding, have usually defied the art of the dramatist who would also be a trustworthy biographer.

I found Mrs. Rose's play to be good literature, good history, and at the same time it seemed to possess those elements requisite for a good acting play.

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