ABSTRACT
The most carefully developed style and the most refined techniques will produce great literature only as they are controlled by a sense of decorum which fits means to ends and assures that words are appropriate to their setting and purpose. However beautiful lines may be, they are dramatically effective only as they are integrated into the total context of a play. A style which is superbly appropriate to the treatment of a certain subject in one place may and usually will be quite inappropriate to the treatment of the same subject in a different context.
