THE GERMAN DRAMA _Hermann Sudermann_ 69 Magda 71 The Fires of St. John 80 _Gerhart Hauptmann_ 87 Lonely Lives 87 The Weavers 98 The Sunken Bell 108 _Frank Wedekind_ 118 The Awakening of Spring 118 THE FRENCH DRAMA _Maurice Maeterlinck_ 129 Monna Vanna 129 _Edmond Rostand_ 138 Chantecler 138 _Brieux_ 147 Damaged Goods 147 Maternity 161 THE ENGLISH DRAMA _George Bernard Shaw_ 175 Mrs. Warren's Profession 176 Major Barbara 186 _John Galsworthy_ 196 Strife 197 Justice 208 The Pigeon 215 _Stanley Houghton_ 226 Hindle Wakes 226 _Githa Sowerby_ 235 Rutherford and Son 235 THE IRISH DRAMA _William Butler Yeats_ 250 Where There Is Nothing 252 _Lenox Robinson_ 261 Harvest 261 _T. G. Murray_ 267 Maurice Harte 267 THE RUSSIAN DRAMA _Leo Tolstoy_ 275 The Power of Darkness 276 _Anton Tchekhof_ 283 The Seagull 284 The Cherry Orchard 290 _Maxim Gorki_ 294 A Night's Lodging 294 _Leonid Andreyev_ 302 King-Hunger 302 THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MODERN DRAMA THE SCANDINAVIAN DRAMA HENRIK IBSEN In a letter to George Brandes, shortly after the Paris Commune, Henrik Ibsen wrote concerning the State and political liberty: "The State is the curse of the individual. How has the national strength of Prussia been purchased? By the sinking of the individual in a political and geographical formula.... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing."