A Complete History of the Stage, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Complete History of the Stage, Vol. 5The French authors, who died in the interval between shakespear and garrick, a lift of which I have before me where I count more than four hundred and fifty, many of them voluminous writers, inundated the theatre With an incomprehen ble number of pteces - but what were they? The mol't tri¿ing and Htmzy popular anecdote was fub ject enough for a French comedy, and th1s maigre kind of diet made their feafon of acting plays a fort: of dramatic Lent, and the Dorantes, and Eralles, the Scapins, the Crilpins, and the Blaifes, dtiierently drelied and ornamented, were fiuffed down their throats, like the painted eggs in Careme, which, whe ther you chufe red, yellow, blue, or purple, are fitll hard, undege¿ible and infipid, and Hill eggs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.