Rich and Poor (Classic Reprint): A Comic Opera - Couverture souple

Lewis, Matthew Gregory

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333999712 ISBN 13 : 9781333999711

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

This book explores the themes of poverty, love, and the search for self-redemption in the backdrop of 18th century England. The author paints an intimate portrait of human nature, with characters whose virtues and vices are as complex as our own. The story explores the delicate balance between love and responsibility, and the struggle to break free from the constraints of our past. At its heart, this book is a meditation on the human condition, a reminder that even in the depths of despair, the possibility of redemption is always within reach.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The rery difibrent aenaatioii Bwhich erery person most experience while reading this opera, and while seeing it performed, furnish one more striking proof of the actors power to refute the old adage by producing something from nothing, and to impart animation and interest to scenes, in themselves devoid of both. He who sits coolly at home to peruse the pieee, and exercise his judgment upon its value, meets with little to remind him that it proceeded from the pen of a richlyrgifted individual, one of our finest romance-writers. Perceiving that die characters are but paltry copies of brilliant originals, that the language is weak, the incidents stolen, and the plot destitute of ingenuity, he feels inclined to doubt whether it can ever have contributed to the gratification of an audience; but he who has once been present at I ts performance, even if the effect of the ooonc portions has escaped his recotteetion, cannot possibly have forgotten the vivid impression which the concluding scene of pathos invariably produces We never witnessed more intense interest or more powerful emotion awakened by any picture of misery in the higher walks of the Drama, than we have seen called forth by this simple picture of domestic distress: jet read it and how perfectly frigid, common-place a piece of business the whole mlliur seems to be. The truth is, paradoxical as, the assertion may ft ear, that the players often produce the finest effect when they have the scantiest materials to work with, and erect some of their most masterly structures upon the least solid and substantial foundations. We scarcely need pause to enumerate proo of this.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333999712
• ISBN 13: 9781333999711
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 79
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