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indispensable. In countries where political
oppression affects all classes, the best intellectual element
have made common cause with the people, have
become their teachers, comrades, and spokesmen.
But in America political pressure has so far affected
only the "common" people. It is they who are
thrown into prison; they who are persecuted and
mobbed, tarred and deported. Therefore another
medium is needed to arouse the intellectuals of this
country, to make them realize their relation to the
people, to the social unrest permeating the
atmosphere.
The medium which has the power to do that is
the Modern Drama, because it mirrors every phase
of life and embraces every strata of society,—the
Modern Drama, showing each and all caught in
the throes of the tremendous changes going on, and
forced either to become part of the process or be
left behind.
Ibsen, Strindberg, Hauptmann, Tolstoy, Shaw,
Galsworthy and the other dramatists contained in
this volume represent the social iconoclasts of our
time. They know that society has gone beyond
the stage of patching up, and that man must throw
off the dead weight of the past, with all its ghosts
and spooks, if he is to go foot free to meet the
future.
This is the social significance which differentiates
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