Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Theatre, Vol. 3: January to June, 1884
I am not sure that Mr. Pinero is at all indebted in any true sense to Mannen af Bord och Qvinnan af Eolket, the long and intensely moral romance by Marie Sophie Schwartz, on which Lords and Commons is founded. Had he freed himself more completely from its in?uence, his play would have been better. It is one of those novels of romantic intrigue and situation, some what in Spielhagen's earlier manner, which were so popular in Germany and Scandinavia about the middle of this century. The characters are always telling each other their interminable histories with a running comment of moral re?ection. Much labour is devoted to preventing the intrigue from unravelling too fast, and the central secret is kept to the last with perverse ingenuity. Mr. Pinero has added little or nothing in the Shape of plot, and has had to reject much. The main improbability of the problem, and the chief errors in its working out, he has borrowed from his original.
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