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Aet. 47, to the London publisher of The Bending of the Bough. Months later in his article “The Celtic Drama” in the Critic (May 1900), George Moore’s former friend William Archer wrote: “it is an entirely derivative production. There is not a trace of original dramatic or poetic impulse in it.” He found the characters lifeless, the plot undramatic, and the author’s Irish cultural agenda futile.