PLAYS
ACTING AND MUSIC

A BOOK OF THEORY

BY
ARTHUR SYMONS


LONDON


1909



_To Maurice Maeterlinck in friendship and admiration_




PREFACE


When this book was first published it contained a large amount of
material which is now taken out of it; additions have been made, besides
many corrections and changes; and the whole form of the book has been
remodelled. It is now more what it ought to have been from the first;
what I saw, from the moment of its publication, that it ought to have
been: a book of theory. The rather formal announcement of my intentions