Married Life: A Comedy, in Three Acts

Married Life: A Comedy, in Three Acts

The Comedy of MARRIED LIFE is entirely originalif the being unassisted by either anecdote, tale, ballad, biography, or any other resource constitutes entire originality.Yet, as some of the couples, especially MR. and MRS. CODDLE, and MR. and MRS. DOVE, have been sketched from the life, the important question of originality is still open to much disquisition. MY DEAR SIR, Allow me to dedicate this Comedy to you, as some little token of my very great admiration of your talents. It is a very common cant to allow of no existing excellence, and refer only to the past for instances of genius! In Dramatic matters, this cant has been particularly cherished; but, with reference to yourself, it may be presumed that were a playgoer of Cibbers time now in existence, he would be puzzled, with all his fond recollections, to name few, if any, by-gone artistes who could have borne away one feather from your well-filled cap of fame. And truly the actor of the UNCLES FOOZLE and JOHNof the Lawyers GROTIUS and FLAMof the wily STEWARDof the cold and crafty Diplomatist, COUNT BERTRANDof the physically cold SAMUEL CODDLEthe excellent and kind-hearted MICHEL PERRINof the warlike CHARLES THE TWELFTHof SIR PETER and OGLEBYand fifty other triumphant assumptions, must possess a feathered coronet of no ordinary dimensions. With a hundred thanks for your great attention to every humble effort of mine, in which you have been concerned, and for the anxiety that you have always shewn for my success, permit me to wish you many years of health and strength, that the stage may long be enabled to name you with pride and pleasure as one of its greatest ornaments. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 46420
Author: Buckstone, John Baldwin
Release Date: Jul 26, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English