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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
It is well thus to make a somewhat dogmatic definition of Comedy, that the critical reader may know what he is to expect in the selections from our English Comic Dramatists. He will see at once how far afield his selector has been able to go, and where he has had to draw the line. Having regard only to the providing of good and interesting reading, he might have quoted largely from our Romantic Drama, in which our literature is exceptionally rich, or from our Farce Drama, to which we have something of an Italian leaning, but to do this would have required folios, not a single small volume.In making the selections from the Comic Dramatists which are to follow, it has been the endeavour of the author not merely to put together at haphazard a number of comedy scenes that shall amuse and entertain the reader of them, but to give him in a succinct form something which shall thoroughly represent English comedy literature. Each scene from a play is preceded by a sketch of the plot sufficient to make the scene intelligible. A short critical note upon each of the dramatists quoted will also be found in the body of the work
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Excerpt from English Comic Dramatists If, on the other hand, the image cast upon the stage be wholly distorted and falsified, and the action and personages of the drama be made laughter - provoking by exaggeration or caricature, the result is no longer comedy but Farce, whether it be the farce of Aristo phanes, of Foote, or of Labiche. Again, if the mockery be ungenial, the laughter savage, or mainly cynical and contemptuous, no dramatic quality it may possess will fit it for stage purposes - will humanize it, as it were; it is neither Comedy nor Farce, but Satire, and the work may please a reader, but will not satisfy an audience. 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.