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CIVIL WAR

A Play in Four Acts

BY ASHLEY DUKES

_Crown 8vo. 2s. net_

_A DRAMA WITHOUT ARTIFICIALITY_

This play is that rarity, an English drama of ideas which is not in any
sense imitative of Mr Bernard Shaw. It presents an intellectual conflict
which is also a passionate conflict of individualities, and the theme is
treated with sympathy and humanity. The portrait of life in a colony of
revolutionists alone would make "Civil War" something of a dramatic
curiosity, but it is more than that. It is at once effective and original.
The play was given for the first time by the Incorporated Stage Society in
June 1910, with remarkable success, and it will shortly be revived by
several of our newer repertory theatres. It should be read as well as
seen, however, for it is dramatic without artificiality, and literary
without affectation.

_The following is what some of the Press think of the play:_

_Pall Mall Gazette_:--"A very interesting, sincere, and artistic piece of
work."

_Westminster Gazette_:--"In producing 'Civil War,' by Mr Ashley Dukes, the
Stage Society has rendered a real service to drama.... The play shows that
the dramat