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...Jean Duran Agriculture...
...Duran in his "Plays of Old Japan" has set out to do a very different and less satisfactory work. He has deliberately combined many plays, and "out of a mass of documents" he has extracted "a limited number of situations" which he has put together "to make five subjects, each complete in itself and offering possibilities for production on the English and American stage." He has cut the "long, rather tedious dialogues" of the original and has "written rapid dramatic scenes giving an actor full opportunity to work himself into the spirit of the part". Working on that basis there...
...should edit a volume of plays and call it "Plays of Old France" one would not expect to find there only the sensationalism of the Grand Guignol. But that is what Mr. Duran has done for the dramatic literature of old Japan. "I have selected", he writes, "scenes which to my mind are intensely thrilling and have all amount of sensationalism and horror of which we have never been aware". He has accomplished what he set out to do. These mangled dramas are thrilling and horrible to an unusual degree. But beside being selected from a very special field...