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Tunison, Joseph Salathiel. Dramatic traditions of the dark ages. *$1.25. Univ. of Chicago press.
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Mr. Tunison’s aim is “to popularize the investigations of the learned, cumbrous, and eccentric Sathas, who sought to show that whatever dramatic tendencies appeared in western Europe during the middle ages were directly inspired by Byzantium.” (Nation.) “The book is a mine of interesting facts about social, religious, and literary life, as connected with or influencing the stage, during the centuries of the Christian era.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is obvious, then, that Mr. Tunison’s evidence cannot always be accepted without examination. But the book is ... distinctly interesting and valuable. It is the work of a scholarly and independent mind; but unfortunately the lack of sound methods produces as strange results in literary history as it used to produce in etymology.” John Matthews Manly.
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“The author commands plain facts enough to make up a useful popular history of dramatic tendencies in Byzantium and the Western empire, but owing to his vitiated method, he merely gives the impression of being widely misinformed.”
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“Mr. Tunison has the skill and liveliness of method which enable him to marshall this wonderful array of facts which he has got together into a readable thesis of mingled narrative and argument. His own vigorous intellectual personality, evident in the assurance with which he sets forth his surmises, convictions, and arguments, gives a pleasurable tang to his scholarly production.”