Excerpt from The Inward Light: A Drama in Four Acts The Reverend Griffith Davenport, a play which to those of us who remember it from its too brief term on the stage seemed the first drama written about our Civil War on a sustained plane of spiritual seriousness worthy of the theme. Certainly such a play as Secret Serv ice can hardly be recommended for spiritual serious ness, however theatrically effective it is or was. Mr. Herne's play, as we recall it, was not a battle of wits, still less of guns, but of principles and ...
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Excerpt from The Inward Light: A Drama in Four Acts The Reverend Griffith Davenport, a play which to those of us who remember it from its too brief term on the stage seemed the first drama written about our Civil War on a sustained plane of spiritual seriousness worthy of the theme. Certainly such a play as Secret Serv ice can hardly be recommended for spiritual serious ness, however theatrically effective it is or was. Mr. Herne's play, as we recall it, was not a battle of wits, still less of guns, but of principles and moral passions. That may, perhaps, in part account for its failure in the theatre, where neither the causes nor the effects of war seem to intrigue the crowd, but only its romantic excite ments. History, however, cannot be written by a record of romantic excitements, nor can historical drama. Fur thermore, it is not in the physical action but in the spiritual and moral reaction that the true worth and beauty of any event is found, or its true measure of fu tility. It has been, unfortunately, a reproach of Ameri can drama that our stage over-emphasizes physical bus tle, thus failing adequately to represent our history even when it makes the attempt; and, lacking an emphasis on things of the spirit, it lacks the depth of moral passion and the beauty of exaltation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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