+ N Y Times p1 D 5 ’20 850w + R of Rs 53:222 F ’21 80w
DRINKWATER, JOHN. Pawns; four poetic plays. *$1.50 Houghton 822
20–21989
The book is a collection of four one-act plays and has an introduction by Jack R. Crawford who says the plays are characteristic of the author’s point of view, namely, that peace and quiet are the natural concomitants of a mind loving beauty. “They are dramas expressed in poetry—the utterance of simple truths which we know beforehand, for of such are the materials of poetry and drama.” The plays are: The storm; The god of quiet; X = O; a night of the Trojan war; Cophetua.
“There is justice in the title. But the true figures of the stage—Falstaff or Iago or Œdipus—are not pawns. They are living beings.” J: G. Fletcher
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“One quality in these ‘Pawns’ is clear: their artistic sincerity. The best play of the three, the largest in conception, the richest and simplest in emotion, and the soundest in workmanship, is the last in the book. [“X = O” in English edition]”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p448 S 20 ’17 960w
DRUMMOND, HAMILTON. Maker of saints. *$2.50 Dutton