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In the final decades of the nineteenth century, when the novel was despotic in its overwhelming triumph over all the other forms of literary expression, and when arrogant writers of fiction like Edmond de Goncourt did not hesitate to declare that the drama was outworn at last, that it was unfitted to convey the ideas interesting to the modern world, and that it had fallen to be no more than a toy to amuse the idle after dinner, Ibsen brought forth a succession of social dramas as tho to prove that the playhouse of our own time could supply a platform whereon a man might free his soul and boldly deliver his message, if only he had first mastered the special conditions of the playwright's art.
And then one enthusiastic young father wanted to buy the playhouse itself, in which Patty had displayed her wares. "But I meant to keep this for my own baby!" she cried. "Oh, you can build another by the time that little mite needs one," the young man replied. "And my youngster is four years old, just ready to inhabit a ready made home of this kind,"
The British prisoners were intrusted to his charge, and, to judge by what I felt myself, the devil might take a lesson from him in severity." "And was he attached to, or connected with, this woman?" "So Mrs. Rumour told us in our dungeon. Poor Jack Ward had the bastinado for celebrating their merits in a parody on the playhouse song,
Archer at least thought them long, for he was impatient till his voice could be heard. When at length the acclamations had spent themselves, he walked across the stage with a knowing air, and looking round contemptuously. "And is THIS your famous playhouse?" cried he. "I wish you had, any of you, seen the playhouse I have been used to?"
Did little business with the Duke of York, and then Lord Brouncker and I to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "Love in a Tubb;" and, after the play done, I stepped up to Harris's dressing-room, where I never was, and there I observe much company come to him, and the Witts, to talk, after the play is done, and to assign meetings.
Clerke, my solicitor, and the Auditor's men with my account drawn up in the Exchequer way with their queries, which are neither many nor great, or hard to answer upon it, and so dined with me, and then I by coach to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The English Monsieur;" sitting for privacy sake in an upper box: the play hath much mirth in it as to that particular humour.
They were people of our own Western America less than a century ago; but though they were not people of the playhouse, as they almost seem to us, they are essentially a play-people. The Spaniard of the Southwest lived, not to work, but to play; and when he worked, it was only that he might play the harder. Los Americanos came and changed all that.
"He found them himself and brought them here in his apron," said Mrs. Martin. "He's been piling them up into what I called a castle, but he says it's a playhouse. He's been very good playing with the blue stones." "Let's get some too, and see who can build the biggest castle!" cried Janet. "Show us where you got them, Trouble."
I am, Sir, with great respect, your most obedient, most humble servant, No. 592. " Studium sine divite veni." "Art without a vein." I look upon the playhouse as a world within itself. They have lately furnished the middle region of it with a new set of meteors, in order to give the sublime to many modern tragedies. They have a Salmonus behind the scenes who plays it off with great success.
Now that sense of isolation, of the mere spectator or the traveler gazing from the windows of the hurrying train that sense returned. But she fought against the feeling it gave her. That evening they went to the theater to see Modjeska in "Magda." Susan had never been in a real theater. The only approach to a playhouse in Sutherland was Masonic Hall.
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