Excerpt from Living Dramatists: Pinero, Ibsen, D'annunzioThe likeness of the English play and the Scandinavian play to the Italian play is due in part, as Prof. Matthews says, to the fact that in all the modern languages the drama has reached an advanced period of its evolution, when it has definitely specialized itself and when it has been able to disentangle itself from the other and non-dramatic elements with which it was perforce com mingled in the more primitive periods.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.