It was also then that he contributed a serialized overview of Romanian theater, published by the newspaper România Liberă, in which Caragiale attacked the inferiority of Romanian dramaturgy and the widespread recourse to plagiarism.Cioculescu, pg. 92; Perpessicius, pp. 238-239; Vianu, Vol. II, pg. 178 According to literary historian Perpessicius, the series constituted "one of the most solid critical contributions to the history of our theater".Perpessicius, pp. 238-239
