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(1914) Author: Emma Goldman
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beginning to assume more or less definite social form
and expression.

Therefore, America could not so far produce its
own social drama. But in proportion as the
crystallization progresses, and sectional and national
questions become clarified as fundamentally social
problems, the drama develops. Indeed, very
commendable beginnings in this direction have been
made within recent years, among them "The
Easiest Way," by Eugene Walter, "Keeping Up
Appearances," and other plays by Butler
Davenport, "Nowadays" and two others volumes of
one-act plays, by George Middleton,—attempts
that hold out an encouraging promise for the
future.

. . . .

The Modern Drama, as all modern literature,
mirrors the complex struggle of life,—the
struggle which, whatever its individual or topical
expression, ever has its roots in the depth of human
nature and social environment, and hence is, to that
extent, universal. Such literature, such drama, is
at once the reflex and the inspiration of mankind in
its eternal seeking for things higher and better.
Perhaps those who learn the great truths of the
social travail in the school of life, do not need the
message of the drama. But there is another class
whose number is legion, for whom that message is

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