Excerpt from The Theatre, Vol. 1: A Monthly Review of the Drama, Music, and the Fine Arts; January to June, 1880 It has pleased some people to call me the Veteran Dramatist and I am not at all disinclined to accept the designation with a certain degree of complacency. But I wish to state at once that, veteran as I may be in the ranks of the dramatists of the time, I am by no means a laudator tempom's acti, or inclined to depreciate the present in favour of the past. On the contrary, I believe in the steady progress of ...
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Excerpt from The Theatre, Vol. 1: A Monthly Review of the Drama, Music, and the Fine Arts; January to June, 1880 It has pleased some people to call me the Veteran Dramatist and I am not at all disinclined to accept the designation with a certain degree of complacency. But I wish to state at once that, veteran as I may be in the ranks of the dramatists of the time, I am by no means a laudator tempom's acti, or inclined to depreciate the present in favour of the past. On the contrary, I believe in the steady progress of dramatic art, as well among its exponents in authorship as among its executants on the stage. Instead of there being a dearth of dramatic authors in the present day, it is my opinion there is a plethora. The desire to excel in dramatic literature has lately produced a mass of aspirants to the honours of stage authorship. Few, it is true, have been able to push their way forward to the very front ranks; but, at the same time, there have been excellent and notable examples of success in younger authors and the number is daily, although slowly, increasing. After all, it is a struggle of sharp competition on a limited field. The common cry, that outsiders are shelved and shunted offthe line is, to my mind, utterly erroneous. But can it be a matter of surprise that managers should be more willing to accept the works of tried and approved authors, who have so often brought money to their treasury, than those of unknown aspirants, whose productions would be, more or less, matters of doubtful experiment? Generally speaking, as far as my own experience goes, the dramatic efforts of new men have their fair and reasonable chance, and eventually find their place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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