This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.

1924. This book has grown out of a series of five lectures which were delivered by the author at the University of Liverpool. He begins: I propose, in this book, to make a plea for an organized theater, but I shall not confine myself to that plea, for a theater is merely a machine whose work depends upon the capacity of those by whom it is owned and operated. My plea, indeed, will be for such a theater, but it will include the much more important demand for an intelligent audience. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty or faded.

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