The Principal Women of Barrie's Plays

Author

Mary Flavia Hale, Marquette University

Date of Award

7-10-1936

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Literatures, Languages, and Cultures

First Advisor

J.M. Purcell

Abstract

Quite frequently in history, a playwright - like Sophocles, or Shakespeare, or Moliere - has become a man of letters; but not often has the process been reversed and an instance been revealed of a man of letters who has become a playwright. Nearly all of the great English poets of the nineteenth century tried to write plays - Scott, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Browning, Tennyson; and there is not a good playwright among them. Browning, of course, affords us the most striking instance in the nineteenth century of the failure, as a dramatist, of a really great man of letters; Sir James Matthew Barrie, on the other hand, is an excellent exception that proves the rule.

Comments

This Thesis is Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts Degree, Marquette University.

Recommended Citation

Hale, Mary Flavia, "The Principal Women of Barrie's Plays" (1936). Bachelors’ Theses. 604.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/604