"The characters are drawn with force and the play is dignified and powerful," and adds that if it does not succeed on the stage it will be "because of its excellence." The Springfield Republican.
"Mr. Rice is one of the few present-day poets who have the steadiness and weight for a well-sustained drama." The Louisville Post (Margaret Anderson).
"It has equal command of imagination, dramatic utterance, picturesque effectiveness and metrical harmony." The London (England) Bookman.
T. P.'s Weekly says: "It might well stand the difficult test of production and will be welcomed by all who care for serious verse."
The Glasgow (Scotland) Herald says: "Yolanda of Cyprus is finely constructed; the irregular blank verse admirably adapted for the exigencies of intense emotion; the characters firmly drawn; and the climax serves the purpose of good stagecraft and poetic justice."
"It is well constructed and instinct with dramatic power." Sydney Lee.
"It is as readable as a novel." The Pittsburg Post.
"Here and there an almost Shakespearean note is struck. In makeup, arrangement, and poetic intensity it ranks with Stephen Phillips's work." The Book News Monthly.
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