Excerpt from The Stronger: Like Falling Leaves; Sacred Ground
Two figures stand out with recognized preeminence in modern Italian dramatic literature. They are Gabriele d"Annunzio and Giuseppe Giacosa. With this preeminence, however, the similarity between them ends. They are at such opposite extremes, indeed, that they serve as excellent foils one for the other. Both are popular, but for widely different reasons. D"Annunzio"s name is a familiar one throughout Europe and America because his work is spectacular, sensational, and elaborately ornamented with poetic imagery, much of it most delicate and beautiful. Giacosa is beloved in Italy, and little known beyond it, because his plays are based upon humble, popular, easily understood themes, with real, everyday people as characters, and because, unlike most Italian plays, they show to best advantage when placed upon the stage. D"Annunzio"s plays have few characters, uninvolved plots, and long speeches heavily loaded with ornamentation. Giacosa"s prose plays - and it is by his prose plays that he should be judged - have many characters of many different types, several side issues apart from the main plot, and a simple, unornamented dialogue, whose simplicity, however, is that of careful art. It is swift, forceful, dramatic, spiced with keen observations upon life expressed with epigrammatic terseness and, when occasion demands, powerful and eloquent.
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