Excerpt from Short Plays About Famous Authors When a writer of stories or plays chooses well known characters for his chief personages, he finds him self obliged to take certain liberties with the facts as set down in the printed page of history or biography. As Sir Walter Scott once put it, stories of things that really happened must be given a stick and a cocked hat, before they can be introduced to readers as novels or dramas. In the plays contained in this volume there has been some shifting of dates to help out the ...
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Excerpt from Short Plays About Famous Authors When a writer of stories or plays chooses well known characters for his chief personages, he finds him self obliged to take certain liberties with the facts as set down in the printed page of history or biography. As Sir Walter Scott once put it, stories of things that really happened must be given a stick and a cocked hat, before they can be introduced to readers as novels or dramas. In the plays contained in this volume there has been some shifting of dates to help out the plots, and Time has been made to go at a less dawdling pace than is his habit, in order to bring necessary happenings within the compass of a single act. But these changes are fairly entitled to indulgence, if, in spite of them, the familiar figures that appear against backgrounds more or less closely copied from actual life are not unfaith fully portrayed. The writer hopes that such is the case, and that Goldsmith, Dickens, and the others whom we know and care for may become in some slight de gree more real to the young people who read and act these little plays about great authors. 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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