Evangeline

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Excerpt from Evangeline: A Legitimate Spectacular Drama in Five Acts, Arranged and Adapted for the Stage This Drama was begun some three years ago and outlined to the end of the first act, At Joplin, Missouri, in the spring of 1876, Manager Selden Irwin desired its completion for represention at that place, and the last four acts were outlined in one afternoon, but the Joplin engagement was not remunerative to the Irwin's and the work progressed no further. In this condition the manuscript remained until this day, August 1st 1878, when it was brought out and placed before me on a printers case in the office of The Freeman, and revised, extended, and put in type out of a fount of Burgoise that has seen over thirty years hard service west of the Missouri. Therefore this adoption from Longfellow's pome, be its merits or demerits what they may, is in every essential particular the result of my own labor and no reflection on account of its short comings are to be thrown on 'the printer'. Throughout this drama the argument of the Poet is closely followed and care has been taken not to put into the mouths of the characters a word that conflicts with the original conception. Old Michael is believed to be an original character. Herman and Christy, if not purely original conceptions, have passages of fun and pathos in which the laugh sometimes lies very close to the fountain of tears. The transfer of Gabrial's death from the hospital to the street, is the only one at variance with the poem, and that is made for stage effect. Further than this the Drama is presented to speak for itself. 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.