The author of this pamphlet deplores the fact that the present-day study of literature aims only at the development of one's faculty to enjoy literary works emotionally and artistically and fails to comprehend its object, which would add to the psychological understanding of those who created the drama and studied human nature in general. Students remain strangers to the real significance of the tragedies or comedies they admire and to the souls of those who created these works. They see only a superficial picture of a phase of life and fail to penetrate into the deeper nature and structure of a literary work as a document of human utterance. In the creation of the drama, the author works out