Essays on the Dram
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ISBN13: 9781459048072
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 67 PLAYS AND THEIR PROVIDERS. If the records of the stage speak truth, they are among the most melancholy of chronicles, since, according to them, acting is always declining and the theatres on the verge of insolvency. It is scarcely possible to conceive, if we credit these narratives, how any class of mortals can embrace so disastrous a profession, or how any man, not being a proven lunatic, should of his own accord undergo the drudgery and disappointments of managership. From Colley Gibber to Mr. Alfred Bunn, the annals of the theatre are one long Jeremiad of vexations from without and from within; so that we are led to think that, in comparison with the sceptre of the green-room, the treadmill must be a pleasant recreation, and Norfolk Island a comfortable retreat. Yet doubtless such cares must have their attendant consolations; for otherwise it could not be that, like leaves on trees, the generations of actors and managers should succeed one another, and even increase Reprinted from ' Eraser's Magazine, ' September 1853. and multiply, in the regions of perpetual embarrassment. Who ever yet found an actor willing to quit the stage, or, having quitted it, not casting a longing, lingering look behind? And even as the stoutest protectionists continue to buy and hire land, although they affirm that land and loss are become convertible terms, so is it common for an actor who has providently saved money, as improvidently to turn manager and lose it. We are unable to reconcile these contradictions, and are driven to the conclusion that the theatrical world, unlike the real world, is composed of self-devoted persons who immolate themselves on the altars of public entertainment. But are the chronicles true is it indeed the fact that actors, like certain doomed races o...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459048072 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459048075 |
| Weight | 0.43 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 126 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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