A Stage Play (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Stage PlayThemes in which his soul delighted, and he 'long afterwards, in 1904, he actually produced a play, shows a keen sense of the ridiculousness of some portions, at any rate, of the process which he describes. Yet we cannot but feel that, tho his paper is largely comic, it is not in the least satiric. He has not the slightest suspicion that what he is really expounding is how not to do it. On some points he writes with perfect seriousness. In the last paragraph, for instance, with its protest against the slovenly rehearsals of the period, he practically drops the mask of Mr. Hor ace F acile. Here he is quite in the move ment of his time, pleading the cause of that highly elaborated art of production which the Bancrofts had actually introduced at the Prince of Wales's, which Irving was soon to adopt at the Lyceum, and which Gilbert him self carried to a notable pitch in his extrava ganzas. Again, in what he says about the difficulty of beginning the first act, and the ten times greater difficulty of getting the sec ond act afoot, he is evidently speaking from experience, while there can be little doubt that Mr. Horace Facile's method of writing his crucial scenes first and connecting them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.