Sister Beatrice and Ardiane Barbe Bleue

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Excerpt from Sister Beatrice and Ardiane Barbe Bleue: Two Plays, Translated Into English Verse From the Manuscript of Maurice Maeterlinck In short, it is a metre neither so far familiar nor so far developed as to justify its use by a translator, whose duty is to interpret his author, in some remote degree, as his author might wish, rather than to experiment as himself might please. For myself, I had no envy to attempt it, and so, with my author's approval, I have turned his play into such blank verse as I might, hold ing, with him, that our English unrhymed verse of ten syllables, iambic in scheme, - trochaic. 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.