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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: THE BONDS OF INTEREST COMEDY IN A PROLOGUE AND THREE ACTS First Presented At The Teatro Lara, Madrid, On The Evening or The Ninth Of December, 1907 CHARACTERS DONA SlRENA Silvia The Wife Of Polichinellk Columbine Laura RlSELA Leander Crispin The Doctor Polichinelle Harlequin The Captain Pantaloon The Innkeeper The Secretary 1st and 2d Servants At The Inn 1st and 3d Constables The action takes place in an imaginary country at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century TO RAFAEL GASSET THE BONDS OF INTEREST PROLOGUE Spoken by Crispin A conventional drop at the front, having a door in the middle, curtained. Here you have the mummer of the iritjqiiR farce who enlivened in the country inns the hard-earned leisure of the carter, who made the simple rustics gape with wonder in the square of every rural town and village, who in the populous cities drew about him great bewildering assemblages, as in Paris where Tabarin set up his scaffold on the Pont-Neuf and challenged the attention of the passers-by, from the learned doctor pausing a moment on his solemn errand to smooth out the wrinkles on his brow at some merry quip of old-time Jarce, to the light-hearted cutpurse who there whiled away his hours of ease as he cheated his hunger with a smile, to prelate and noble dame and great grandee in stately carriages, soldier and merchant and student and maid. Men of every rank and condition shared in the rejoicing?men who were never brought together in any other way?the grave laughing to see the laughter of the gay rather than at the wit of the farce, the wise with the foolish, the poor with the rich, so staid and formal in their ordinary aspect, and the rich to see the poor laugh, their consciences a little easier at ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217249645 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217249647 |
| Weight | 0.54 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 160 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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