Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from W. G. Wills: Dramatist and Painter
The poetry of the stage-play is as far from the highest poetry as the drama of the poet from the requirements of the stage. But, measured with those who have devoted poetical gifts to practical Stage-work, the author of 'olivia' and 'charles I.' may fairly be considered the poetic dramatist of the Victorian era. Even in the height of his fame, however, W. Gr. Wills was personally so little known, and was so free from self-advertise ment, that his biographer is under a disadvantage, for his subject is but a name. He had many claims to rank high among his literary contempo raries. He restored poetry to the Stage at a time when the poetic drama was supposed to be dead. He successfully took up the thread of history plays when managers were saying that Shakespeare spelled ruin. His dramas were literature to the cultured, while they were human nature to the crowd, thus acquiring among all classes a wide spread popularity. Some of them, like the two I B.
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