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"You must color her exactly like that... as the Tragic Muse," suggests one of Wayne' personas to Nick Dormer, the young Englishman who, during the course of the book, will courageously avoid the glittering Parliamentary profession desired for him by his family, to be able to color. His progress is counterpointed by the "Tragic Muse" of the title, Miriam Rooth, one of Wayne' most fierily beautiful masterpieces, a great actress indifferent to social reputation and triumphantly dedicated to her skill. In portraying the turmoil between skill and "the globe", which is his novel's central idea, Wayne involved obliquely with current debates on the new aestheticism of Pater and Wilde and on the nature of the actor's performance. From the living intricacy of his protagonists, he shows how much, as Philip Horne places it, "to use art very seriously as a finish in itself...is still a provocative course."
