The Big Drum: A Comedy in Four Acts
The Big Drum: A Comedy in Four Acts

The Big Drum: A Comedy in Four Acts

The Big Drum: A Comedy in Four Acts The Big Drum is published exactly as it was...
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Author: Pinero, Arthur Wing,1855-1934
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Language: English
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The Big Drum: A Comedy in Four Acts

The Big Drum: A Comedy in Four Acts

CHF 11.46 CHF 5.73
The Big Drum: A Comedy in Four Acts

The Big Drum: A Comedy in Four Acts

CHF 11.46 CHF 5.73
Author: Pinero, Arthur Wing,1855-1934
Format: eBook
Language: English
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The Big Drum: A Comedy in Four Acts

The Big Drum is published exactly as it was written, and as it was originally performed. At its first representation, however, the audience was reported to have been saddened by its "unhappy ending." Pressure was forthwith put upon me to reconcile Philip and Ottoline at the finish, and at the third performance of the play the curtain fell upon the picture, violently and crudely brought about, of Ottoline in Philip's arms. I made the alteration against my principles and against my conscience, and yet not altogether unwillingly. For we live in depressing times; and perhaps in such times it is the first duty of a writer for the stage to make concessions to his audiences and, above everything, to try to afford them a complete, if brief, distraction from the gloom which awaits them outside the theatre. My excuse for having at the start provided an "unhappy" ending is that I was blind enough not to regard the ultimate break between Philip and Ottoline as really unhappy for either party. On the contrary, I looked upon the separation of these two people as a fortunate occurrence for both; and I conceived it as a piece of ironic comedy which might not prove unentertaining that the falling away of Philip from his high resolves was checked by the woman he had once despised and who had at last grown to know and to despise herself. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 25984
Author: Pinero, Arthur Wing
Release Date: Jul 6, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

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