On Reading the Bible by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Now for another question (much argued, you will remember, a few years ago) "Is there -- can there be -- such a thing as a Static Theatre, a Static Drama?"

Most of you (I daresay) remember M. Maeterlinck's definition of this and his demand for it. To summarise him roughly, he contends that the old drama -- the traditional, the conventional drama -- lives by action; that, in Aristotle's phrase, it represents men doing, πράττοντας, and resolves itself into a struggle of human wills -- whether against the gods, as in ancient tragedy, or against one another, as in modern. M. Maeterlinck tells us --