Ocupation: Playwright
Life: July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950
Birthday: July 26
Death: November 2
Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.
topic: Moving, Men, Effort, Melodrama, Faust, Prison Reform