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Excerpt from The Thief: A Play in Three Acts
Regarded as an object of study, a play may be of special interest for any one of several reasons. It may appeal primarily because of thesis and the in tellectual stimulus thus afforded. It may have chief value for expressional qualities, so that we speak of it as a piece of literature, meaning not so much theme or treatment as the way in which the dramatist has clothed his thought in language. Plays that are un dramatic in this sense, may possess this charm, make this claim upon our regard. Or again, a play the subject-matter of which is not so important in itself and which is negligible in respect of style, may be interesting and have worth for the sheer craftsman ship with which the stage story is handled. Its technic will be illuminating to all who by the thought ful'examination of dramatic material seek to learn something of the secret of success whereby a cross section of life is set upon the boards of a playhouse in such fashion as to hold increasingly the pleasurable attention of a general audience.
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