The Witching Hour

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Excerpt from The Witching Hour: A Drama in Four ActsThe Witching Hour was played and had run its full consecutive course upon the stage, and had settled into the occasional presentation by local stock companies before it was put into print, and when printed it was given to the reading public without author's or publisher's comment. It is only with this edition by Samuel French addressed to amateur players and students that a preface has been con sidered desirable, and even here its pertinence would not be evident except as one of a number of prefaces intended collectively to set forth in rather haphazard fashion some illustrations of the problems that come to a dramatist, and his individual manner of solving them.* The whole enterprise is prompted by the fact that in some college classes some plays of mine among others, are discussed educationally, it may be no less as examples of what to avoid than as models of what, in part, to repeat, but in either case an author's own ideas and intentions may be informing.In a discussion of this play, as of all plays of theme rather than of situation, clearness may be attained by considering subject and treatment separately, and economy of attention would suggest considering the subject first.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.