After reading Love! Valour! Compassion!, a historian would certainly draw some inferences on the worldview of the play's culture that would contrast with those surrounding The Glass of Water and The Children's Hour.
Firstly, this play is nowhere near as tightly structured as the Well Made Plays. It dos not have a linear plot, there is no cause-effect sequence, and there is no logical resolution. I believe that our historian would infer that this world's culture has grown speculative of the capital-T Truth and humanity's ability to discover it. It puts a much larger emphasis on the journey towards discovery as opposed to the discovery itself. This play is also very theatrical as opposed to the very illusionistic Well Made Plays. Love! Valour! Compassion! blurs the lines between reality and fantasy, suggesting that we cannot simply take everything we see exactly for what it is.
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