Mr.Shaw may be said to have founded a school; at any rate he gave the start to Mr.Galsworthy and some lesser dramatists.

Wilde founded nothing, and his works remain as complete and separate as those of the earlier artificial dramatists of two centuries before.
Another school of drama, homogeneous and quite apart from the rest, remains.

We have seen how the "Celtic Revival," as the Irish literary movement has been called by its admirers, gave us a new kind of romantic poetry.

As an offshoot from it there came into being some ten years ago an Irish school of drama, drawing its inspiration from two sources--the body of the old Irish legends and the highly individualized and richly-coloured life of the Irish peasants in the mountains of Wicklow and of the West, a life, so the dramatists believed, still unspoiled by the deepening influences of a false system of education and the wear and tear of a civilization whose values are commercial and not spiritual or artistic.

The school founded its own theatre, trained its own actors, fashioned its own modes of speech (the chief of which was a frank restoration of rhythm in the speaking of verse and of cadence in prose), and having all these things it produced a series of plays all directed to its special ends, and all composed and written with a special fidelity to country life as it has been preserved, or to what it conceived to be the spirit of Irish folk-legend.