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Patelin, Pierre—continued.
of character, the drollery of situations and style, but because it is
much longer and contains a real action, or rather an extremely
skilful fusion of two actions in one." Gaston Paris's Mediaeval
French literature.
Vanbrugh, Sir John.
[Plays]; ed. by W. C. Ward. 2v. 1893 822 V17P
v.i. The relapse; or, Virtue in danger.—zEsop.—The provok'd wife.
v.2. The false friend.—The country house.—The confederacy.—The mistake.—A
journey to London.—A short vindication of The relapse, and
The provok'd wife.
"Less brilliant than Congrevc, and altogether his inferior both as a
dramatist and as a wit, Sir John Vanbrugh [1664-1726] is in my
opinion unsurpassed by any of our post-Restoration writers of comedy
in the vivacity, gaiety, and ease of his prose dialogue. Moreover,
he enriched the comic stage by one supremely ludicrous character...
the admirable Lord Foppington of 'The Relapse,' and he invented
some others which are almost equally extravagant and almost equally
true to life... The utter frivolity of the later Stuart comedy has no
more signal representative than Vanbrugh." Ward's History of English
dramatic literature.
Wager, Lewis.
Life and repentaunce of Marie Magdalene; a morality play
reprinted from the original edition of 1566; ed. with introduction,
notes and glossarial index by F. I. Carpenter.
1904. (Chicago University. Decennial publications,
2d ser. v.i.)
822 W13
This play is conjecturally dated about 1550. Almost nothing is known
of the author.
White, Richard Grant.
Memoirs of the life of William Shakespeare; with An essay
toward the expression of his genius and An account of
the rise and progress of the English drama. 1865 822.33 B14
"In his 'Memoirs' he adds nothing to what was already known of the
poet's life, but his presentation is eminently readable. The 'Account
of the drama' supplies enough to put the reader right as regards
Shakespeare's historical relations to that great branch of English
literature. The 'Essay' is the jewel of the volume. It is weighty
throughout with fresh, yet sober and well-considered thought." H. N.
Hudson in Atlantic monthly, 1865.
Humor
Adeler, Max, (pseud, of Charles Heber Clark).
Fortunate island, and other stories. 1882
817 A228
Other stories: The city of burlesque.—An old fogy.—Major Dunwoody's
leg.—Jinnie.
Butler, Ellis Parker.
Pigs is pigs. 1906
817 B97
Appeared in "Frank Leslie's popular monthly," v.6o, Sept. 1905.
Deliciously humorous story of the trouble that arose between an express
agent and an irate consignee over the charges on two guinea
pigs-
Lark; [ed. by Gelett Burgess]; monthly, May 1895-April
1897. [v.1-2], no.1-24. 1895-97 r8i7 L32
No more published.
Humorous periodical, consisting largely of nonsense rhymes and amusing
illustrations.
"What had we to say? Nothing. We were in the mood for song
rather, and hence for that and the pun of the thing we named our
amateur output the Lark." Gelett Burgess in Academy, 1899.
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