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Excerpt from The Morality Motive in Contemporary English Drama
Maeterlinckian genre with its emphasis on the dramatic significance of the mystery within and around us, the importance of intuitive in sight into phenomena of the soul, and the con sideration of the soul face to face with its own mystery and with the mystery of eternity, had become so well known in England as to lead some to think that it has been of transcendent importance in shaping the way for the dramatic re-expression of the religious ele ment; 3 while, finally, the most important of all and an in?uence accounting largely for all the above-mentioned points, the spiritual awaken ing, of which the religious play is only one manifestation, the gospel of the twentieth cen tury in contrast with, possibly as a comple ment to, the utilitarian and materialistic thought of its predecessor.
Be the value of these causes What it may, the fact remains that the morality motive.
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Maeterlinckian genre with its emphasis on the dramatic significance of the mystery within and around us, the importance of intuitive in sight into phenomena of the soul, and the con sideration of the soul face to face with its own mystery and with the mystery of eternity, had become so well known in England as to lead some to think that it has been of transcendent importance in shaping the way for the dramatic re-expression of the religious ele ment; 3 while, finally, the most important of all and an in?uence accounting largely for all the above-mentioned points, the spiritual awaken ing, of which the religious play is only one manifestation, the gospel of the twentieth cen tury in contrast with, possibly as a comple ment to, the utilitarian and materialistic thought of its predecessor.
Be the value of these causes What it may, the fact remains that the morality motive.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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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Language - English
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Joseph Wayne Barley
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ISBN - 9780365028369
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm
Page Count - 116
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Joseph Wayne Barley
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Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.7 cm
Page Count - 118
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