FROM THE PRESS NOTICES. "The work before us reveals a sustained nobility of style And this short essay in dramatic verse can only add fresh proof of the fine catholicity of her genius." -- Morning Post "There is a play by John Oliver Hobbes in verse, which, solemn an pathetic as it is, is quite as admirable as her lighter prose." -- Scotsman "This is a striking poetical play written partly in rhymed dialogue, partly in blank verse, and partly prose There is real poetry in the play, and it has more than beauty enough to ...
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FROM THE PRESS NOTICES. "The work before us reveals a sustained nobility of style And this short essay in dramatic verse can only add fresh proof of the fine catholicity of her genius." -- Morning Post "There is a play by John Oliver Hobbes in verse, which, solemn an pathetic as it is, is quite as admirable as her lighter prose." -- Scotsman "This is a striking poetical play written partly in rhymed dialogue, partly in blank verse, and partly prose There is real poetry in the play, and it has more than beauty enough to make it please any lover of poetry who takes it up." - Scotsman "John Oliver Hobbe's new venture is a tragedy, and in some sense a strong one. It is good to read and might easily be adapted for the stage. It has the merit of concentration, and, if carefully mounted and skilfully actei, wou'.d produce powerful effects. Its plot is one which might have inspired AEschylus or Shakespeare to produce a great play Itis a powerful play, and is full of striking lines and passages. Wl ether it is put upon the stage or not, it may be said with truth that the author has achieved a success that has in it some of the elements of greatness." -- Glasgow Herald "'Osbern and Ursyne, ' a drama in tbree acts in verse, seems to us very beautiful and melodious." -- Daily Chronicle "In 'Osbern and Ursyne' the theme is dramatic, the handling imaginative and powerful." -- Daily Chronicle "John Oliver Hobbes's blank versa Anglo-Saxon play, 'Osbern and Ursyne," has subtlety. It is also lofty and poetical In reading it you cannot help feeling that she understands the principles of tragedy." --Queen "Sirs. Craigie's play both in bulk and literary merit, is the most important contribution to the 'Anglo-Saxon." -- Standard "The play is a very fine piece of dramatic literature, in which all the clearness of vision and insight into motive which crystallizes into sparkling epigram in this author's novels, has been used to form poetic periods which are neither artificial nor unduly stilted. Some of the passages are almost Shakespearean, and will easily bear comparison with extracts from Rostand's 'Cyrano." Considerable knowledge of stage technique is also manifest throughout, and it is evident that Mrs. Craigie has devoted considerable time and used the results of copious study in the construction of the play." -- Brooklyn Eagle
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