The Hand of the Potter a Tragedy in Four Acts By Theodore Dreiser Reviewed
The Hand of the Potter a Tragedy in Four Acts By Theodore Dreiser Reviewed
Fred Emerson Brooks
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I find myself occupying a position in the no man s land stretching between the two camps but rather far to the left. " Many readers of the play will no doubt share Nathan s uncertainty, and face both ways. With characteristic courage Dreiser has tackled a dreadful theme. Young Isadore Ber- chansky is a bora degenerate and he com mits a fiendish crime. Dreiser tells his story to prove that the boy is neither a fiend nor a criminal, but the helpless vic tim of heredity and environment. The first ...and second acts in the Berchansky home are masterly. We find it difficult to be lieve that they can fail to be effective in the highest degree upon the stage. Partic ularly the awful climax to the first act and the scene at the close of the second in which the old people realize that the crime has been committed by Isadore. And Dreiser has surely never done any thing better than his characterization of the Berchansky family. The third act, in which the scene shifts to the courtroom, may act more convincingly than it reads.
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