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Drama
E. J. R. I. | December 21, 1918 issue

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This article presents information, on several plays on the World War I. The powerful, and unconventional, plays, "The Fourteenth of July" and "Danton," are conceived as suitable material for a theatre of the masses. The book and the plays were written almost twenty years ago, yet they come fresh and vigorous, just as if they had been written only yesterday. It was the same during the French Revolution. Even the decrees of the Convention that there should be national theatres, popular festivals, and public performances of great plays, failed of realization because there were no suitable plays to perform and no people organized to respond to them if there had been.

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THEATER; 14TH of July, The (Theatrical production); REVOLUTIONARY literature, French; WORLD War, 1914-1918; DANTON (Theatrical production); DRAMA
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