Abstract
The drama critic for the Saturday Review began his column of 7 January 1882 by alluding to the "new and curious chapter" which was then being "added to the 'Calamities and Quarrels of Authors.'" He was referring to the furor which followed the production a week earlier of Arthur Wing Pinero's new play The Squire at the St. James's Theatre in London, and which was fast becoming the most publicized literary wrangle in years. Within hours of the fall of the curtain on opening night Pinero found himself accused by a number of newspaper reviewers of having stolen his plot, situations, and main characters from Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd (1874).
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