Underscores "_" before and after a word or phrase indicate _italics_ in the original text. Equal signs "=" before and after a word or phrase indicate =bold= in the original text. Small capitals have been converted to ALL CAPITALS. Illustrations have been moved so they do not break up paragraphs. Both "Thisby" and "Thisbe" appear in the original publication and have been preserved in this ebook. Old or antiquated spellings have been preserved. Literary critics have many times during the past two thousand years waged battle with one another over the question whether drama owes its excellence chiefly to plot or chiefly to character. Is it the business of the dramatist, critics ask successively…
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