Primarily remembered as novelist, short-story writer, and autobiographer, George Moore nonetheless wrote plays for more than fifty years. As with his other work, his plays reflect the many literary and artistic movements to which he was attracted with short-lived but intense devotion during the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first of the twentieth. Moore's work in drama will never challenge the stature of that of George Bernard Shaw or Oscar Wilde. Some of his plays are chiefly of historical interest, and some are competent pieces of dramatic craftsmanship. None is a masterpiece. His realistic dramas lack the innovation and luster of Shaw's Arms and the Man (1894); his innovation and luster of Shaw's Arms and the Man (1894); his comedies of manners lack the brilliance and wit of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1895); his symbolic plays lack the lyricism of William Butler Yeats's mature pieces.Yet...