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DRAMATIC LITERATURE.
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1 . The Duchess de la Valliere . A Play in Five Acts , by E . L . Bulwer , M . P . 2 . The Daughter . A Play in Five Act ? , by Sheridan Knowles . To those , among our old subscribers , it may have appeared
strange that , during several months past , the Monthly Repository , which has ever manifested a deep sympathy with dramatic literature , should have been comparatively silent on the subject . The truth is , we had already put forth nearly all we had to say on the most important points immediately desiderated , and without which there could be no chance of
a renovation of the Drama . As no fresh production of suffix cient note , except ' Ion , ' had issued from the press , and as the theatres remained in just the same Augean state of managerial sensuality and ignorance , we felt indisposed to vex our readers or ourselves by fruitless repetitions and monotonous accounts of
abortive plays and bear-garden vulgarities . Another field is now being cultivated ; another sun lifts his shoulder above the horizontal ocean ; another Spirit is in the air , and other hopes walking the earth with strength and uprightness , begin to appear and open a prospect of health and vigour , while mighty voices of the olden time chorus the advent of their natural
sons . Alone , and yet without the greatest genius , the right worthy and honest-hearted Sheridan Knowles , stood in the long dull gap between the Drama and the Beast . Barry Cornwall and Jerrold did not lend their aid ( or the latter did so very sparingly ) and retired from the struggle with contempt . Next came the highly-classical and talented Serjeant Talfourd to assist the efforts of Knowles , while many energetic critics
relieved his vigil , and aided both of these gentlemen in their cause . We are now rejoiced by the appearance of a versatile , accomplished , and certainly the most popular author of the day , who comes forward to assist in throwing down the barriers , and bearing the reviving form of Dramatic Genius through those gates which might have been many years longer in flying open to any reputation less brilliant and wide-spreacj . Like the shadowy king in * Macbeth / his hand bears a glass where many more are seen . " What a man can" was the saying of one of the old wise men of Greece , and for all those who " can" there will in a few years be plenty of room . Dramatic literature is on the rise ; it will sink and heave , and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 65, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/18/
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