The authors of all these plays employ a
quiet technic; depend on the force of truth
rather than of noise, and the creation of an
illusion of every-day life so complete that the
spectator actually lives, for the time being, the
life of those on the stage. To these drama-
tists the theatre is not a place to see other peo-
ple play a game according to certain rules, as
one goes to the Polo Grounds to see the Giants
play baseball, but a sort of extension of one's
real life. One does not there escape from life so
much as enter into it — see it more clearly and
feel it more poignantly. And along with this,
of course, goes a good deal of approval of the
individuars right to "live his own life "and
determine his course in any set of circum-
stances according to his own judgment in-
stead of according to what the world may say.
The contrast to old-fashioned conventions is
especially noticeable in the case of women and
their right to think and act for themselves.
