Excerpt from A Game at Love: And Other Plays

I have taken the climacteric moments of imagi nary novels and have embodied them in dramatic sketches. This method constitutes a rebellion against that species of psychological fiction which, in six hundred pages, succeeds in telling us no thing. For as intellectual intercourse between na tions becomes more intimate, and the body of lit erature of each country is augmented by that of the others, it will inevitably become a requirement that the individual work of art shall be diminished in bulk. Homer could write a poem in twenty four books with impunity. Not so the modern artist. Nor Is there any legitimate reason why we should take up twice twenty-four hours of a read er' s time with a story that could be told no less efi'eétively in ten minutes.

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