Drawing-Room Plays, Selected and Adapted from the French (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Drawing-Room Plays, Selected and Adapted From the French This little book is intended to meet a want often felt - especially at Christmas-time - of short plays, unobjectionable in tone, easy to act, and requiring no elaborate costume or scenery. The following lines were written for the Authoress by a friend to whom she had expressed her regret that the language required was necessarily 'of the period.' To the Reader. My task has been a hard one - to express French wit and sparkle in an English dress. Forgive me, Reader, if your cultured taste Think language 'of the period' misplaced: 'Pals, '' beastly, ' 'rotten, ' 'bosh, ' 'confound it, ' 'hang, ' Are, I admit, 'quite too too awful' slang, And if you disapprove of ' won't' and ' can't, ' To the poor solecisms pardon grant. We know, of course, professors do not teach These little idioms of our Saxon speech, But in the grown-up world, that larger school, Such forms are not exceptions, but the rule: So please remember that in '88 We English neither live, nor talk, in state, And if, with this in mind, you like the plays, My best reward will be - your honest praise. 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.