The Human Touch: With Fantasy and Poems (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Compton-Rickett, Leonard Allen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133356998X ISBN 13 : 9781333569983

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The Human Touch, put on for two matinees at the A mbassadors, deals with the problem of vivisection, an unpopular subject, as anything that troubles the lazy world and awakes that annoying thing, Conscience, is bound to be. After the great, and we fear the misdirected energy of the War, English people are more supine than ever about facing things difficult and disquieting. Mr. Compton-R ickett splay had an excellent reception, but one doubts that it would ever have a long run. The modern world is too anxious to be healed to be nice in asking at whose expense they are healed and Death, who wore a familiar and even friendly face during the War, has now in the general demoralization been put back in his proper place. The same knight-errantry has prompted Mr. Compton-R ickett in the motif of The King of Hearts, which might have had a more general title, since Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, and Spades, and their personages all figure in it. It has the spirit of true fantasy. It has hnmour, poetry, wit, and it has also real philosophy. The City Company on its last legs, which is redeemed by learning to do its business according to the fairy-tale, is a very happy conception. There is plenty of spectacle, and from the charming opening, as primitive as a mystery-play, to the end, which might be in modern London, the allegory is complete. This would be a charming play, not for the theatres, but for pastoral players, or it might be played by children there is a touch of Puck in it, if also of Titania and Mustard Seed and Peasblossom.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133356998X
• ISBN 13: 9781333569983
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244
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