A Losing Game から On the Racecourse へ

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Lady Gregory presents a series of plays rewritten on the similar subject, that is, A Losing Game (1902), Twenty-Five (1903), The Jackdaw (1907) and On the Racecourse (1926). The process of rewriting is most understandable as that of overcoming 'sentimentality' which the playwright judges to be the weak point of the former two. In the course from A Losing Game to On the Racecourse, the hero's motive changes, the characters' sentiment diminishes, and romantic fiction vanishes. The Jackdaw is a comic parody of sentimental Twenty-Five, and On the Racecourse reverses the sentimental motive of A Losing Game. Lady Gregory provides us a key to the mystery of her playwriting in the process of expulsion of 'sentimentality'.
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