the thing that happens.

His play of ‘The Treasure of the Garden’ carries on a tradition that shook the stage before playwrights became self-conscious and before poets aimed to please the high foreheads in the stalls. There is no mental dyspepsia in his characters. They present no problem. Their aim is to be real. To be glad and sorry for a little while on a miniature stage measuring a foot across.”—Academy, 14/3/03.

PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY

ELKIN MATHEWS, VIGO STREET, LONDON.

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Transcriber’s Notes:

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Added missing open quote before “Debauched by sixpenny and even threepenny editions” in James Flaunty advertisement. Also reformatted Manchester Guardian attribution to include em-dash for consistency with other quotation attributions.

Changed some double quotes to single quotes in the final quotation of the James Flaunty advertisement for more appropriate quote nesting.