+ Outlook 126:238 O 6 ’20 80w
“Mr McCarthy is one of our most acceptable historical novelists. His people are real; and neither they nor he drop into the mannerisms of style or the pat dialogue too common among his rivals.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p426 Jl 1 ’20 140w Wis Lib Bul 16:195 N ’20 90w
MACCLINTOCK, LANDER. Contemporary drama of Italy. *$1.50 (2c) Little 852
20–1987
The book is one of the Contemporary drama series edited by Richard Burton. Comparatively little is known to the English-speaking public of modern Italian dramatists. The object of the book is to fill the gap. The author holds that the Italian is realistic rather than romantic and his modern literature is characterized by fidelity to life and the intellectualization of its themes rather than by emotionalism. Even romanticism contained the germs of the modern movement and an increasingly intelligent public demands more and more discussion and solution of vital questions and urgent problems. The contents are: The foundations; Giuseppe Giacosa; The early realists; Gabriele D’Annunzio; The later realists; Roberto Bracco; Actors and acting, the popular theatre, the dialect theatre; The younger generation; Futurism and other isms; Bibliographical appendix; Index.
“Without that special charm which transforms such a book into one of popular appeal, but still interesting and useful in its suggestiveness to the drama student and general reader.”
+ − Booklist 16:195 Mr ’20 Cleveland p42 Ap ’20 70w
“Mr MacClintock is very agile, very well-informed, his touch is light and his taste is catholic.”