Great Love Stories, of the Theatre

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Excerpt from Great Love Stories, of the Theatre: A Record of Theatrical RomanceThe tinselled thrones of player-queens enjoy one prerogative, at least, of actual royalty, they too stand within the fierce white light of public attention. Apologies, therefore, need not be made to the memories of the long-dead actresses whose amorous exploits are recounted in the present volume, their intrigues have been permanently photographed into theatrical history.Stage chronicles are usually dull reading for the laity unless the personalities of the players, whose art is indeed wrought in running water, can be re animated. To the typical theatre-goer, the voice, the smile, of the last new-made "star" has infinitely more interest than the names of all the mummers who have died and been buried, in unsanctified ground or Westminster Abbey, since much-mentioned Thespis trundled out his cart. From such a view-point this work was undertaken. Certain great women of the theatre's great past have been studied as women rather than as histrionic automata. Their splendid amours, with men of great name or title, have been retold as the central episodes of their lives, and by the blaze of these passions their characters and their careers have been silhouetted. Love stories these papers are called, and love stories they remain.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.