Problems of the Playwright
Problems of the Playwright
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Stevenson's biographer, Mr. Graham Bal- four, has stated [Volume I, page 161], — "Although he had read (and written) plays from his early years, had reveled in the melodramas of the toy-theatre, and had acted with the Jenkins and in other private theatri- Digitized by Google STEVENSON ON THE STAGE 167 cals, I find no reference to his having visited a theatre before December, 1874." At this date, Stevenson was twenty-four years old; and it is not at all surprising that an author who first visite...d the theatre at the age of twenty-four should show himself deficient as a dramatist when he casually undertook the task of mak- ing plays in his early thirties.
In view of these facts, its seems only fair that Henley, more than Stevenson,, should be called to account for the manifest anachronism of their plays; for Henley was a magazine-editor, and ought presumably to have kept himself in touch with the fashions of the theatre in his day. But it is possible, of course, 'that Henley was deterred from theatre-going by his bodily in- firmity, — an infirmity much more painful and disas- trous than that which kept Stevenson isolated in his bed at Bournemouth.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Stevenson's biographer, Mr. Graham Bal- four, has stated [Volume I, page 161], — "Although he had read (and written) plays from his early years, had reveled in the melodramas of the toy-theatre, and had acted with the Jenkins and in other private theatri- Digitized by Google STEVENSON ON THE STAGE 167 cals, I find no reference to his having visited a theatre before December, 1874." At this date, Stevenson was twenty-four years old; and it is not at all surprising that an author who first visite...d the theatre at the age of twenty-four should show himself deficient as a dramatist when he casually undertook the task of mak- ing plays in his early thirties.
In view of these facts, its seems only fair that Henley, more than Stevenson,, should be called to account for the manifest anachronism of their plays; for Henley was a magazine-editor, and ought presumably to have kept himself in touch with the fashions of the theatre in his day. But it is possible, of course, 'that Henley was deterred from theatre-going by his bodily in- firmity, — an infirmity much more painful and disas- trous than that which kept Stevenson isolated in his bed at Bournemouth.
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