The Key Of The Garden A Tragi Comedy In Four Acts And In Prose Waters Water A Farce In Two Acts And In Prose

Excerpt from The Man Who Ate the Popomack: A Tragi-Comedy of Love in Four Acts For the rest I hope no one will be so foolish as to say this play is badly constructed. It may be a bad play, but it is certainly not constructed according to the rules laid down by dramatic critics. 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.

Excerpt from The Citizen: A Farce, in Two Acts Wild. Live but in her presence! How the devil could the young baggage raise this riot in your heart? Pis more than her brother could ever do with any of her sex. Beau. Nay, you have no reason to complain you are come up to town, post-haste, to marry a wealthy citizen's daughter. Who only saw you last season at Tunbridge, and has been languish ing for you ever since. 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.

Three weeks after marriage: a comedy, in two acts, as performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent Garden By Arthur Murphy HE following farce was ofl'ered to the I public in January 1764; but the quarrel about a trifle, and the renewal of that quarrel, after the difpute had fubfided, being thought unnatural, the piece was damned. Mr. Lewis. Of covent-ga'rden Theatre, had the courage to revive it for his benefit in March lafi, with an alteration of the title, and it has been fince: repeated with fuccefs. A fimilar incident hap pened to V0 LT aire at paris. That writer, in the year 1734, produced a tragedy, intitled adelaide Du guesclin, Wth was hifl'ed through every 36jc. In 1765, LE k'ain, an actor of eminence, revived the play, which had lain for years under condemnation. Every fcene was applauded. Vilhat can Ithink, fays vol taire, of thefe oppofitejudgments? He tells the following anecdote. A banker at 'paris had orders to get a new march compofed for one of the regiments of Charles XII. He employed a man of talents for the purpofe. The march was prepared and a praétice of it had at the banker's houfe before a numerous aitembly. The mu fic was found deteftable. Mouret (that was the compofer's name) retired with his perfor mance, and foon after inferted it in one of his operas. The banker and his friends went to'the opera; the march was applauded. Ah, fays the banker, tfiat': wfiat we wanted: wfiy did you not give u; fametlzing in t/zir tafle Sir, replied mouret, the march which you now applaud, is the very fame that you condemned before. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.