Athalie

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Excerpt from Athalie: Tragédie French, and especially the cultivated Frenchmen for whom tragedies were written, are the natural heirs of the classical love of symmetry and finish, of perfection within a limited range. The aspirations of the Teutonic races are vaguer and less regulated, they would fain see everything at once, even at the risk of imperfection of form. At least as important is the history of the development of the theatre in the two countries. This is hardly the place to discuss at length the growth of the Elizabethan drama, it is sufficient to say that it grew up naturally, at a time when the energies of Englishmen were being put forth in every direction, that there was no breach of continuity between the masques and miracle plays that had come down from the middle ages and the plays of Shakespeare's immediate predecessors, and that it was essentially a popular institution. All sorts and conditions of men flocked to the theatre, and their likes and dislikes reacted on the dramatist. In France the theatre followed a different line of development. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.