uch similar phases of actual life as we
have previously realised for ourselves. We are wearied because we have
already unconsciously imagined more than the playwright professionally
imagines for us. With a great play our experience is the reverse of this.
Incidents, characters, motives which we ourselves have never made
completely real by imagination are realised for us by the dramatist.
Intimations of humanity which in our own minds have lain jumbled
fragmentary, like the multitudinous pieces of a shuffled picture-puzzle,
are there set orderly before us, so that we see at last the perfect
picture. We escape out of chaos into life.

This is the secret of originality: this it is that we desire in the
theatre:--not new material, for the old is still the best; but familiar
material rendered new by an imagination that informs it with significance
and makes it real.

INDEX

Adams, Maude, 60.

Addison, Joseph, 79;
_Cato_, 79.

Ade, George, 56;
_Fables in Slang_, 56;
_The College Widow_, 41.

_Admirable Crichton, The_, 113.

Aeschylus, 5, 6, 135.

_After Blenheim_, 228.

_Aiglon, L'_, 67, 68.

_Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire_, 157.

Allen, Viola, 109.

Alleyn, Edward, 163.

_All for Love_, 17.

Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence, 92.

_Antony_, 140, 142.

_Antony and Cleopatra_, 16.

Aristophanes, 202.

Aristotle, 18.

Arnold, Matthew, 8, 19, 205, 221.

_As You Like It_, 38, 48, 51, 61, 62, 77, 78, 92, 100, 172, 186, 220.

_Atalanta in Calydon_, 20.

Augier, Emile, 9, 141.

_Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson_, 103.

_Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The_, 178.

Bannister, John, 86.

Banville, Theodore de, 66.

Barrie, James Matthew, 204, 205, 206, 219;
_Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire_, 157;
_Peter Pan_, 215;
_The Admirable Crichton_, 113;
_The Professor's Love Story_, 157.

Barry, Elizabeth, 70, 80.

Barrymore, Ethel, 157.

_Bartholomew Fair_, 202.

_Beau Brummel_, 70, 114, 210.

Beaumont, Francis, 28;
_The Maid's Tragedy_, 28.

_Becket_, 19, 72.

Bejart, Armande, 62, 63, 71.

Bejart, Magdeleine, 62, 71.

Belasco, David, 155;
_The Darling of the Gods_, 42;
_The Girl of the Golden West_, 90.

_Bells, The_, 125.

Bensley, Robert, 86.

Bernhardt, Sarah, 40, 64, 65, 66, 68, 105, 107.

Betterton, Thomas, 70.

_Blot in the 'Scutcheon, A_, 31, 56.

Boucicault, Dion, 70, 83;
_London Assurance_, 83;
_Rip Van Winkle_, 70.

_Brown of Harvard_, 155.

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