The Great White Negation
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES. To wish for the fulfillment of your desire—that is childish. To fear the fulfillment of your […]
The Great White Negation Read Post »
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES. To wish for the fulfillment of your desire—that is childish. To fear the fulfillment of your […]
The Great White Negation Read Post »
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES Events in Russia have brought Maxim Gorky to the front with a bound. For him literature
Gorky: Hamlet Awakened Read Post »
O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome;And when I am
Ralph Waldo Emerson Read Post »
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES They who are won to silence have passed the gaudy gates of Vanity Fair—the gates that
Silence: Beyond the Saturnalias Read Post »
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES All the great novelists are fatalists. Admission or denial on their part is beside the question.
Cosmic Marionettes Read Post »
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES NO drama is now complete without its cynic or cynics. Some plays have a boss cynic
The Dramatic Devil’s Advocate and Cynicism Read Post »
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES HAWTHORNE drank from the beaker of inexhaustible shadows; his soul sought instinctively the obscure and the
Hawthorne: Emperor of Shadows Read Post »
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES Dramatic criticism is of three kinds: There is the critic who goes to the theater to
The Drama and the Critic Read Post »
Is It, After All, a Comedy? To the Editor of The Sun—Sir: Nietzsche—a Copernicus in psychology, a Dowie in constructive
The Production of “Parsifal” Read Post »