Why should I wade through all this blank verse when it is not about anything that I care about, or want to know anything about, or that you could tell me anything about if I did? I began it with great pleasure; for it is pleasant to sample good workmanship. But that soon palls [...]. If you only knew how Literature bores a man who has taken to Life! Of course Morris loathed reading other mens' verses. How do you like it yourself? But he read Dickens and Dumas père. If you would write about the things we are all thinking about and the people we all know, the papers would revile you and we should read you [...]" . The now largely forgotten author Newman Howard wrote a series of blank verse tragedies called "The Christian Trilogy", of which "Constantine the Great" was the third instalment. Though Shaw did not like the works, they were well received by most critics. - With a vertical fold and some browning..