Love, since you pleased to love! All's cleared--a stage For trial of the question kept so long: Judge you--Is love or vanity the best?

You, solve it for the world's sake--you, speak first What all will shout one day--you, vindicate Our earth and be its angel! All is said.

Lady, I offer nothing--I am yours: But, for the cause' sake, look on me and him, And speak!

_Duch._ I have received the Prince's message: Say, I prepare my answer!

_Val._ Take me, Cleves! (_He withdraws._)[56]

The formula for the would-be dramatist so far as his people are concerned is this: A play which aims to be real in depicting life must ill.u.s.trate character by characterization which is in character.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] For all of these except _Hyckescorner_ see _Specimens of Pre-Shakespearean Drama_. J. M. Manly. 2 vols. Ginn & Co., Boston.

For _Hyckescorner_ see _The Origin of the English Drama_, Vol. I. T.

Hawkins, ed. Clarendon Press, Oxford.

[2] _Induction, Every Man in His Humour._ Mermaid Series or Everyman's Library.

[3] See _Two Loves and a Life_, _The Ticket of Leave Man_, _The Lady of Lyons_. All published by Samuel French, New York.

[4] Belles-Lettres Series. F. E. Sch.e.l.ling, ed. D. C. Heath & Co.; Mermaid Series, vol. III, or Everyman's Library.

[5] Mermaid Series, vol. II. Chas. Scribner's Sons, New York.

[6] _Play-Making_, pp. 376, 378. Small, Maynard & Co., Boston.

[7] _Plays_. Chas. Scribner's Sons, New York.

[8] Walter H. Baker & Co., Boston; W. Heinemann, London.

[9] _Some Plat.i.tudes Concerning Drama_, _Atlantic Monthly_, December, 1909.

[10] _The Devonshire Hamlets_, Act I, pp. 9-10.

[11] _Dramatic Essays._ William Hazlitt.

[12] _The Stage in America_, pp. 81-82. N. Hapgood. The Macmillan Co.

[13] _Some Plat.i.tudes Concerning Drama_, _Atlantic Monthly_, December, 1909.

[14] See the quotation from Stevenson, p. 243, as to _Weir of Hermiston._

[15] _Hamburg Dramaturgy_, p. 324. Lessing. Bohn ed.

[16] Belle-Lettres Series. A. H. Thorndike, ed. D. C. Heath & Co., Boston and New York.

[17] Mermaid Series for both plays. Chas. Scribner's Sons, New York.

[18] _A New Rehearsal, or Bays the Younger._ Charles Gildon. 1714-15.

[19] _At the New Theatre_, pp. 189-192. W. P. Eaton. Small, Maynard & Co., Boston.

[20] _Idem_, pp. 47-48.

[21] _Hamburg Dramaturgy_, p. 238. Bohn ed.

[22] Walter H. Baker & Co., Boston; W. Heinemann, London.

[23] P. V. Stock, Paris. Published in translation by J. W. Luce & Co., Boston.

[24] Walter E. Baker & Co., Boston; W. Heinemann, London.

[25] _Letters of Henrik Ibsen_, p. 437.

[26] _Au Public, La Princesse Georges._ Calmann Levy, Paris.

[27] _Oeuvres_, vol. VII, p. 320. Garnier Freres, Paris.

[28] _The Theatrical World for 1893_, pp. 46-47. W. Archer. Walter Scott, Ltd., London.

[29] The Macmillan Co., New York.

[30] P. V. Stock, Paris.

[31] _Selected Dramas of John Dryden_, p. 230. Preface, _All for Love_. G. R. Noyes, ed. Scott, Foresman & Co., New York.

[32] _Theatre_, vol. II. Michel Levy Freres, Paris.

[33] Walter H. Baker & Co., Boston.

[34] The Macmillan Co., New York. Act III.

[35] Belles-Lettres Series, p. 373. M.W. Sampson, ed. D.C. Heath & Co., Boston.

[36] _Shakespeare's Library_, vol. v, pp. 267-271. W. C. Hazlitt, ed.

[37] _Squire of Alsatia_ Mermaid Series. G. Saintsbury, ed. Chas.

Scribner's Sons, New York.

[38] Mitch.e.l.l Kennerley, New York.

[39] For ill.u.s.tration of good work, see pp. 25-26, 36, 49, 162, 174, 181, 190.

[40] See for discussion of these, pp. 382-96.

[41] _Tartuffe_, Act I. _Chief European Dramatists._ Brander Matthews, ed. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston.

[42] Act III, Scene 2. Belles-Lettres Series. A. H. Thorndike, ed. D.

C. Heath & Co.