Masques And Mummers; Essays On the Theatre of Here And Now
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' The end was almost too ugly to bear detailed recital. It is enough for our purpose to state that philosophy finally failed of domination. Phryne went back to the streets with the added chic of a sensational romance and a proud family name. The student of Zeno found rest in suicide. The fame of his experiment still abides in a great university. It does not follow that John-a-Dreams will meet with such a fate. Indeed, he starts with a distinct advantage over his predecessor in the hazard of lif...e with a woman who was wanton by heredity and breeding and who turned virtuous only when she left the town for the theatre. It was to give Harold Wynn a better chance for success with Kate Cloud, I fancy, that the creator of the character made him a slave of the betel. A rake, a libertine, or even a drunkard, would not have 230 MASQUES AND MUMMERS. answered the dramatist's purpose of proportion and equality. He wanted a hero who should be approxi- mately as hopeless as his heroine in the matter of antecedents.
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