A few words about the author of “Friedensfest,” which is here translated as “The Coming of Peace,” will possibly be of interest to readers. Gerhart Hauptmann, who is still a comparatively young man, is as yet little known to English readers, and wholly unknown to English play-goers, except for the performance of this play under the auspices of the Stage Society on the 10th of June 1900, which has given occasion for this translation. In German-speaking countries he is recognised by many as the greatest modern dramatist with the single exception of Henrik Ibsen. He is certainly the only dramatist who, writing under the inspiration of the great Norwegian poet, can by any remotest possibility b…
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