Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, Vol. 6 In Gricelda Hauptmann employs once more the method of psychological interpretation which he had used so triumphantly in H enry of 14143. The legend of Patient Grizzel has, as it stands, no reality or humanity of motive to the modern mind. The figures are like medieval illuminations with rigid limbs and unearthly eyes. Hauptmann causes them to melt into life. It is possible to contend, to be sure, that the motives which, in the play, are the springs of the action, are rather modem; that Ulrich's absorbing love of Griselda, which makes him jealous of his child, has a touch of the patho logical. It is equally fair to argue, on the other hand, that human nature has known no great change through the ages, even as the world about us has been constant in its character within the limits of hun'n history. Only neither literature nor science had, until quite recently, cultivated either the gift of observation or the capacity of making an exact record. Upon this assumption H auptmann's art in Griselda is as sound in method as it is admirable in effect. 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.