Excerpt from Saints and Sinners: A New and Original Drama of Modern English Middle-Class Life, in Five Acts The passing of the American Copyright Bill is a fact of the highest import for English playwrights and for the future of the English drama, - that is, if the English drama has a future. It will indeed afford an accurate gauge of any individual playwright's pre tensions, and of the general health and condition of the national drama. Hitherto the publication of an English play would have incurred the forfeiture of the ...
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Excerpt from Saints and Sinners: A New and Original Drama of Modern English Middle-Class Life, in Five Acts The passing of the American Copyright Bill is a fact of the highest import for English playwrights and for the future of the English drama, - that is, if the English drama has a future. It will indeed afford an accurate gauge of any individual playwright's pre tensions, and of the general health and condition of the national drama. Hitherto the publication of an English play would have incurred the forfeiture of the American stage-rights, in many cases a very serious pecuniary loss. It would also have been attended with a very grave artistic risk. The best American managers - r-those who are capable of doing justice to the author in the production of a play - would naturally have refused to touch it unless their stage rights were protected. It would have been presented. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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