Dangle monologue — Mr. Punch's Dramatic Sequels

As you will. [_Selecting a new cutting._] "In his new play _The Spanish Armada_ Mr. Puff has set himself to deal with one of those problems of feminine psychology with which Ibsen, Hauptmann, and Sudermann, and all the newer school of continental dramatists have made us familiar. The problem is briefly this. When filial duty beckons a woman one way and passion another, which call should she obey? Should she set herself to 'live her life,' in the modern phrase, to realise her individuality and stand forth glad and free as Gregers Werle says? Or should she deny her _ego_, bow to the old conventions, accept the old Shibboleths and surrender her love? Like _Nora_, like _Hedda_, _Tilburina_ is a personality at war with its environment...."