 | 1911 - 534 pages
...students of the drama are hopeful of the future. Mr. Mackaye sees ahead the drama of democracy, which will be a poetic drama — "not a revival of old forms,...fresh imagining and an original utterance of modern writers which are as yet unimagined and unexpressed. Not a revival, but a new birth ; not a restoration,... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1909 - 842 pages
.... . They will delineate with large simplicity and passion, as befits a fine art for the many. . . . The dramatic poet of democracy will not, I think,...original utterance of modern motives which are as yet nnimagined and unexpressed. . . . Not a restoration, but a renascence of poetic drama. No bounds can... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1909 - 860 pages
...allegorize ; neither will he so much symbolize as see and create in Me large. Dramatic poet he most be, for in the very nature of its ideal the drama...original utterance of modern motives which are as yet nnimagined and unexpressed. . . . Not a restoration, but a renascence of poetic drama. No bounds can... | |
 | Martha Tuck Rozett - 1994 - 234 pages
...theatres, and stadium theatres (2:478). He envisioned "dramas of democracy" to be written by poets, for in the very nature of its ideal the drama of democracy...birth; not a restoration, but a renascence of poetic drama.38 MacKaye's first published play, The Canterbury Pilgrims, appeared in 1903; during the next... | |
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Not a revival of old forms, not an emulation of Elizabethan blank verse, but a fresh imagining and an original utterance of modern motives which are as yet unimagined and unexpressed. Not a revival, but a new birth; not a restoration, but a renascence... 