Collects 46 reviews of Victorian plays by Hutton (1826-1897). Hutton was known primarily as a theological and political writer, and he published most of these reviews anonymously in the paper
he co-owned in London, the Spectator . The reviews critique individual performers, several of Shakespeare's plays, and the work of Tennyson, Ibsen, and Faust, as seen on London's stages or in
Germany during Hutton's visits there. A biographical sketch and an outline of Hutton's principles of drama are included. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
