Author: George Stephens Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484607544 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 338
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Excerpt from Dramas for the Stage, Vol. 1 of 2 For nearly forty years, even from his boyish days, the irrepressible bias of his mind has inclined him to dramatic invention and' composition; has impelled the thought that came in solitude, to make it populous, and transformed a city to a wilderness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: George Stephens Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484821216 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 416
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Excerpt from Dramas for the Stage, Vol. 2 of 2 The desire for male children is esteemed a virtue, and is incorporated in many Of their daily salutations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: George Stephens Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781330096956 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 339
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Excerpt from Dramas for the Stage, Vol. 1 of 2 An ability to construct five act dramas, not unworthy of lasting success in stage representation, has long since been ascribed, in divers reviews, periodical and other publications, by some of the first dramatic critics of the country, to the author of the present volumes, and his conscience inclines him to "plead guilty to the soft impeachment." At the same time, his inspiration, damped and oppressed by the apathy of the iron and material age we "have fallen upon," which, like Gallio, devoted to the pleasures and pursuits of sense, "cares for none of these things," so, necessarily, is profoundly unenlightened respecting them; remains unaware of their immeasurable dignity in comparison with the mammon-worship and go-ahead mania that recognise their sordid objects in millocracies and railocracies...Vanity of vanities! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: William Pitt Lennox Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781528066419 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 314
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Excerpt from Plays, Players and Playhouses at Home and Abroad, Vol. 1 of 2: With Anecdotes of the Drama and the Stage And in the graceful buskin tread the stage. Fr; a. Translation from horace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Mary Russell Mitford Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780483759244 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 416
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Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of Mary Russell Mitford, Vol. 1 of 2 Where my passion for plays began, it is difficult to say. Perhaps at the little town of Alresford, when I was somewhat short of four years old, and was taken by my dear father to see one of the greatest tragedies of the world set forth in a barn. Even now I have a dim recollection of a glimmering row of candles dividing the end which was call ed the stage from the part which did duty as pit and boxes, of the black face and the Spangled turban, of my wondering admiration, and the breathless interest of the rustic audience. My dear father! How, to the very last, he loved to take his pets to the play! More than fifty years must have passed since that evening in the barn, when, happening to dine at Reading, attended by the beautiful little brown spaniel, who followed him everywhere, he, and of course Flush, accompanied his host to the theatre, to see the charming actress and charming woman, Mrs. Orger. They sate in the place of honour close to the stage. Flush, with his paws on the front of the box, his large earnest eyes fixed on the actors, and his long silky ears brought forward on either side. Of his face, as is the custom of those intelligent dogs on great occasions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Joseph N. Ireland Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780265851234 Category : Languages : en Pages : 776
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Excerpt from Records of the New York Stage, Vol. 1 of 2: From 1750 to 1860 Ultimately disclosing his secret to a friend upon whose judgment he relied, he was tempted to enlarge his original design, and, commencing with the earliest introduction of the Drama in America, to undertake the publication of his work in its present form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Dutton Cook Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781332788736 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 362
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Excerpt from Nights at the Play, Vol. 2 of 2: A View of the English Stage About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Clement Scott Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780332695167 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 692
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Excerpt from The Drama of Yesterday to-Day, Vol. 1 of 2 Of my ability, to avoid anything that might be described as acrimonious controversy. But, be it history or reminiscence, it was impossible to discard strong reference to what I venture to call the politics of the drama. The story of the stage and its brilliantly successful career, step by step, could not be told without insisting on the proved value of free trade in dramatic art, and a wholesome independence in dramatic criticism. I shall be content, however, if it be acknowledged that no animosity has soiled the record of the past, and that I at least have remembered and tried to recall old scenes, old associations, Old friendships, and celebrated players, with all the delightful and happy memories connected with them. The drama of the Victorian era is without a doubt a most interesting, varied, and most exhaustive study. In it we travel from the time Of the patent theatres, special monopolies and protectionist privileges, all sup posed to have been instituted in the interests of art, but which unquestionably retarded its progress, to the heroic and heart-breaking struggle for better things at Covent Garden, Drury Lane, and elsewhere with which must be ever connected the honoured name of William Charles Macready. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Henry Taylor Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780666701800 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 460
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Excerpt from Philip Van Artevelde, Vol. 1 of 2: A Dramatic Romance, in Two Parts As this work, consisting of two Plays and an Interlude, is equal in length to about six such plays as are adapted to representation, it is almost un necessary to say that it was not intended for the stage. It is properly an Historical Romance, cast in a dramatic and rhythmical form. 1 Historic truth is preserved in it, as far as the material events are concerned - of course with the usual exception of such occasional dilatations and compressions of time as are required in dramatic composition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: John Vanbrugh Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781527692367 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 388
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Excerpt from Plays, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing, the Relapse, or Virtue in Danger; The Provok'd Wife, With a New Scene; Aesop, in Two Parts; The False Friend One Word more about the Bawdy, and I have done. Iown the firfi Night this thing was ac'ted, fonte Indecencies had like to have happened but it was not 111 F ault. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: George Stephens
Author: George Stephens
Author: George Stephens
Author: William Pitt Lennox
Author: Mary Russell Mitford
Author: Joseph N. Ireland
Author: Dutton Cook
Author: Clement Scott
Author: Henry Taylor
Author: John Vanbrugh