William Vaughn Moody

“ Mr. Moody with a finer art shows in the play that love and work are not necessarily irreconcilable interests and that by substituting for the selfishness of a personal claim the more impersonal and unselfish type of love, the hero could make a resolution of his problem which included every aspect of a man's life.
The most convenient form in which to read Mr. Moody's work is in the complete edition, the Poems and Plays of William Vaughn Moody, in two volumes, published by the Houghton, Mifflin Company in 1912. ”

“ In September, 1909, it was produced for a short run at the Adelphi Theatre in London. The Great Divide portrayed the conflict of the ideals of Puritanism, with its capacity of self-torture, and the freer conceptions of life prevalent in the West. ”

“ The Faith Healer represents the drama of revolt, in which the protest of the individual is made against the controlling power of social law and custom. Only as long as the "Faith Healer" has confidence in himself does his power survive the ever-present disbelief of the world. This drama of revolt found its most powerful expression in the work of a group of dramatists to which Mr. ”