... 'discovered' as a dramatist, and as a significant forerunner of a modern theatrical trend. As with the Irish dramatists, the use of local dialects in Lawrence's plays contrasts with the more common standard English in the drama of the time. They underline the criticisms of society made by these dramatists, and reinforce the realistic settings and local identities of the plays. POPULAR AND ... , and it designates the small-town preoccupations with which the novelists dealt. Barrie's A Window in Thrums (1889), based on his home town of Kirriemuir in Angus (the Thrums of the title), re...

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