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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 3 3 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
can be made over into a costume play, though it was written as an up-to-date society comedy. But the difference between it and Mitchell's The New York idea (19 November, 1906) is that the latter contains some of the universal depth that mere change in time and condition will not alter. The theatre of the sixties and seventies w get across on the emotional force of the moment. But his social and economic knowledge was incomplete. One feels this in contrasting his Daughters of men (19 November, 1906) with George Bernard Shaw's Widowers' houses. The fact is, Klein had no political vision, though none of his contemporaries could be more earnest in the haynch Williams's Why marry? (Astor Theatre, 25 December, 1917). Perhaps these examples are overtopped by Langdon Mitchell's The New York idea (Lyric Theatre, 19 November, 1906), which has an irony of universal Import—a tang of the Restoration drama, without its blatant Vulgarity—a critical sense of manners at once timely and for ev