Excerpt from Modern Dramatists This book aims at a critical study of the modern European Theatre. It is not intended as a guide to the popular authors of the day, either in England or abroad; indeed, many successful playwrights are not even mentioned in its pages. It is dogmatic, because it is written from a definite standpoint, and its judgments depend upon an absolute standard of value. T 0 write of any group of authors, dramatic or otherwise, without such a standard, is to debase the coinage of criticism and to insult the artist. I need not define my criterion here, for I have endeavoured to make it clear in the open ing chapters. It is enough to say that it excludes the vast majority of living dramatic authors, and that in excluding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.