Excerpt from The American Dramatist There is no book treating distinctively of the American Dramatist and his work. This volume is therefore designed to meet a want which some day will be felt, though at present the literary critic contents himself in the belief that there is no American drama, and never has been. Be this as it may, the activity has none the less existed, and no literary treatise has dealt with it properly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.