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The coming of peace (A family catastrophe)

Chapter 8: MODERN PLAYS
By Gerhart Hauptmann
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The play unfolds on Christmas Eve in a rural family home where an aging head of household, his anxious wife, grown children, a neighbor and a long-serving servant gather as holiday rites mask simmering tensions. Gradually domestic rituals reveal secrets, inherited weaknesses, ideological clashes and moral compromises that threaten to fracture relationships. Scenes alternate ordinary detail and charged confrontations, exposing how private history and social expectation shape behavior across generations. The drama balances bleak revelations with restrained sympathy, suggesting both the weight of heredity and a cautious possibility that younger members may avoid repeating past errors.

MODERN PLAYS

EDITED BY
R. BRIMLEY JOHNSON and N. ERICHSEN.

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HENRIK IBSEN

“Love’s Comedy” (Kjærlighedens Komedie).—Professor C. H. Herford

EMILE VERHAEREN

“The Dawn” (Les Aubes).—Arthur Symons

AUGUST STRINDBERG

“The Father” (Fadren).—N. Erichsen

OSTROVSKY

“The Storm.”—Constance Garnett

MAURICE MAETERLINCK

“Intérieur.”—William Archer

“La Mort de Tintagiles.”  }

“Alladine et Palomides.” }—Alfred Sutro

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GERHART HAUPTMANN

“The Coming of Peace” (Das Friedensfest).—Janet Achurch and C. E. Wheeler

EARLY VOLUMES

VILLIERS DE L’ISLE ADAM

“La Révolte.” }

“L’Evasion.”   }—Theresa Barclay

SERGIUS STEPNIAK

“The Convert.”—Constance Garnett

BRIEUX

“Les Bienfaiteurs.”—Lucas Malet

Arrangements are also in progress with representative dramatists of Spain, Italy, and other countries. Further translations have been promised by Dr Garnett, Messrs Walter Leaf, G. A. Greene, Edgar Prestage, etc.