New York Idea, The

By Mitchell, Langdon

Book Id: WPLBN0002953013
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Reproduction Date: 2010

Title:	New York Idea, The
Author:	Mitchell, Langdon
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Dramatic Works, Play
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, New York Idea, The
Historic Publication Date:	1906
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Mitchell, B. L. (1906). New York Idea, The. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
I find it very hard to classify The New York Idea under any of the established rubrics. It is rather too extravagant to rank as a comedy; it is much too serious in its purport, too searching in its character-delineation and too thoughtful in its wit, to be treated as a mere farce. Its title—not, perhaps, a very happy one—is explained in this saying of one of the characters: Marry for whim and leave the rest to the divorce court—that's the New York idea of marriage. Like all the plays, from Sardou's Divorçons onward, which deal with a too facile system of divorce, this one shows a discontented woman, who has broken up her home for a caprice, suffering agonies of jealousy when her ex-husband proposes to make use of the freedom she has given him, and returning to him at last with the admission that their divorce was at least premature. In this central conception there is nothing particularly original. It is the wealth of humourous invention displayed in the details both of character and situation that renders the play remarkable. (Summary from Project Gutenberg)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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