Excerpt from The Dramas and Dramatic Dances of Non-European Races: In Special Reference to the Origin of Greek Tragedy, With an Appendix on the Origin of Greek Comedy
The present volume is a sequel to my Origin of Tragedy, published in 1910, or rather it is an expansion of a short chapter in that work, wherein I had briefly given some evidence from the dramatic performances of Asiatic countries in support of my doctrine of the origin of Greek Tragedy. As all the criticisms of that book have been founded upon the Solar Myth, the Tree and Vegetation Spirit and Totemic theories of Kuhn, Max Muller, Mannhardt, McLennan, and my friend Sir James Frazer put forth in his famous Golden Bough, I have been compelled to examine in my Introduction (pp. 1-64) the principles on which those doctrines severally depend, whilst in the rest of the work concurrently with my own direct investigations I have tested the validity of those various theories upon which Professor A. Dieterich, Dr L. R. Farnell, Miss J. E. Harrison. Professor G. G. Murray, Mr F. M. Cornford, Mr A. B. Cook and Professor A. B. Keith have based their respective hypotheses for the origin of Greek Tragedy proper, Satyric Drama, Greek Comedy, the Great Games of Greece and the Drama of Hindustan.
The materials here presented formed the subject of a set of public lectures delivered at Cambridge in the Michaelmas Term of 1913. On December 10th of the same year the leading results of that course were laid before the British Academy in a paper, a summary of which appeared in the Athenaeum of December 20th, 1913. Although the work (the Addenda and the Appendix excepted) was already in type at the outbreak of the War, I must crave the reader's indulgence, if he shall find in it an inordinate number of defects, since in the months that have elapsed no man save one devoid of all love of country and utterly insensate could have concentrated his attention on questions which can only be regarded as mere trivialities in presence of the stern and sad realities that confront us day by day.
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