OUR STAGE AND ITS CRITICS

1910

CONTENTS

PREFACE

CHAPTER I

THE DRAMATIC CRITIC

His Qualifications—His Knowledge of Fashionable Society—His Duties and Difficulties—His Stock Phrases—The Circumstances under which he writes—His Fear of Libel Actions

CHAPTER II

THE DRAMATIC CRITIC

His Duty to be tolerant—His Sympathies when young—The Jaded Critic—His Unpaid Labours and his Letter Bag

CHAPTER III

THE DRAMATIC CRITIC

An Attack upon him—Why he is disliked—His Honesty—His Abolition—The Threatened Theatrical Trust

CHAPTER IV

PLAYS OF PARTICULAR TYPES

The Pseudo-Historical—The Horrible in Drama—The Immorality Play—Scripture Plays—Anecdotal Plays—The Supernatural

CHAPTER V

PLAYS OF PARTICULAR TYPES

Unsentimental Drama—The Second-hand Drama—Plays with a Purpose—Drama and Social Reform

CHAPTER VI

THE PHENOMENA OF THE STAGE

The Optics—Make-up—Gesture—Scenery at the French Plays—Stage Costumes—Colour—Stage Meals

CHAPTER VII

THE MORALITY OF OUR DRAMA
 

Mr Harry Lauder on the Morals of Our Drama—