Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-08-05

been the novelty OF tho Partisan dramatic
season, 10 az powerful force in tho Horac
drama as Henrik Tbaen. ! Ielght h,y, by
way Of parenthpas. that hts dramas have
been performed in Germany number ot
timos-I heard "Gilidtn llVnustat ton
years arc in Saxon thctsr mud ,hat
tho Independent Theater ni London VIII
present "Frolon Iullo" ncNt apaaon
A mans worries arc the best commentary
on his llfo, do not think lt % ncocwary
to nay much about tho early yleiuiWdcg
Of this strenuous swede. tio WA born about
forty yuara nso. believe. 20 stoafh'Im.
without money or friends ho MANAGED 10
make hia way through the UplvorHlty OF
upsaia. lie had samothlrF Of tho free
houtcr IN him IN those days, ITO fought
poverty IN many fashionH aud IN many
plaoos. IIa was mn uahrr Ia a school, su
Hpohocary's drudge. nuner 10 tho thcttcr
In thu end no driftcd into journalism. he
had no gragh for this trade. and gave q up
altogether. when no secured an assistant
lihrarianship. 10 had written eounlo on
ungnccossful plays before this brt d may
10 said that hlh literary ilfo dates trem the
limo he turned his back on journalism no
wrote novels. which gained him rouic dis-
tinoton. Win these ! am not f5iuuiay
but understand they carry On the fchAstlc
tradition when has como down through
BaiEae ana zoln. his plays nTo msttgrs
which moro nearly concern ne. To-day
they arc a force IN European Thought
"Fadren," am confident, VII exert a
grcater influence on the drama Of ,ho future
than any Sluglo play you can uamo-'hp %
Ghosts" In rarIsienne," 7Baai." what
You viii. srindberE's hrat play. "Master
olaf" was produced IN 1881 IN tho New
Thcatcr. slochhoim. II was not until 1857
that "padroa' was given To the world Tho
ferociaus tiylalitlos az uonrl neeQuo and
oacar Metenior Aro as water unto vino COM
pared with this bitter tagedy-
strindberg ia a distiuEulshei and I'M
poniient pesslmlst IN this he Is at one
With tho groht thinkers Of tho nagt, with
all tho murallsrrs and all The comic pocts.
In his case these black Views " life are
deopened by his poor and solitary exist
ence and HIS epliepuc nerves. lie does not
iespiAo mcn aud life WIN The airy indifor.
anoe Of the young writer's Of tho day His
hatred Is brutal and yeromous ga that OF
Swift. u Is moro than passion; II is
malady Neither Shakespeare nor nalLar
has nayed tho human beast so felentlessly
a. this cold NorS-r. The NhimA OF tho flesh.
the hrutalitics OF instinct. tho srotesquarles
Of tho educated conscience, the universal
lrrosnonTihuity aud egotisn-not even Dos
tnleysky mas laid them bare with such un-
tparing hand To md his prototype one
wonid have 70 80 10 the Greeks; as indeed,
one has 10 DO 20 lnd the genesis OF any
"new movement" IN art or letters Tho
Norsemon to-day arc merely teaching us
the old ieaaoue OF the Greek drama. Tho
old passions ciemar and snarl under the
drrss coat aud Gihus hat. Il 10 tho same
warld, very cold very imiuohlle worry hard.
very sad. ucared With ancisn; evils. That
Strlndbeig has lhid heavy emphasis upon
lhls truth IN ,licae days Of hnpant and
latuous op,imism may be Accounted 10 him
Tar cerlan nort az riFhiqpnaness
And thla PLAY, "Tho Fathnr"
Il % merely the old duel " rex, the uier-
nal war ~ The male and female Laura
" the fn3aern w0man--As the female novel;
ista and mails lfaiuntlsla have devised hor.
And hero let nae say that ! am Qaite VI
uaears oplAians iiial ln these maiiura We
Initiates tho Nf|lafn The yellow Aaisrlsh
NOinan that ON loeetf ~ eqofslfy NV 4
= creation of Tue book, LITERATURE always
anticipates me, Tho carly part nf tho
Nineteenth c1utps3 WAS largely a creation
% nait1c 80 nt.er psri 10 a fcllaction 81
4oNrsnth tRho iiyrnic1 Nihu'sm. aaa ~
ioHqn. De Manpassen., s'rlnlnars Oscar
Wilde and tnt fr3tlcd1urut3uc fom9lc
c-',srt Fisht SD the erulam that iiio's