The Connecticut Wits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Connecticut Wits write by Henry Augustin Beers. This book was released on 1920. The Connecticut Wits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays..
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The Connecticut Wits and Other Essays (Classic Reprint)
The Connecticut Wits and Other Essays (Classic Reprint) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Connecticut Wits and Other Essays (Classic Reprint) write by Henry A. Beers. This book was released on 2015-07-04. The Connecticut Wits and Other Essays (Classic Reprint) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from The Connecticut Wits and Other Essays The present volume is the first work published by the Yale University Press on the Oliver Baty Cunningham Memorial Publication Fund. This Foundation was established May 8, 1920, by a gift from Frank S. Cunningham, Esq., of Chicago, to Yale University, in memory of his son, Captain Oliver Baty Cunningham, 15th United States Field Artillery, who was born in Chicago, September 17, 1894, and was graduated from Yale College in the Class of 1917. As an undergraduate he was distinguished alike for high scholarship and for proved capacity in leadership among his fellows, as evidenced by his selection as Gordon Brown Prize Man from his class. He received his commission as Second Lieutenant, United States Field Artillery, at the First Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, and in December, 1917, was detailed abroad for service, receiving subsequently the Distinguished Service Medal. He was killed while on active duty near Thiaucourt, France, on September 17, 1918, the twenty-fourth anniversary of his birth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.
The Connecticut Wits; and Other Essays
The Connecticut Wits; and Other Essays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Connecticut Wits; and Other Essays write by Henry Augustin Beers. This book was released on 2013-09. The Connecticut Wits; and Other Essays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... RETROSPECTS AND PROSPECTS OF THE ENGLISH DRAMA* THE English drama has been dead for nearly two hundred years. Mr. Gosse says that in 1700 the English had the most vivacious school of comedy in Europe. And, if their serious drama was greatly inferior, still the best tragedies of Dryden and Otway --and perhaps of Lee, Southerne, and Rowe --made not only a sounding success on the boards, but a fair bid for literary honors. Ten years later the drama was moribund, and in 1747 its epitaph was spoken by Garrick in the sonorous prologue written by Dr. Johnson for the opening of Drury Lane: Then, crushed by rules and weakened as refined, For years the power of Tragedy declined: From bard to bard the frigid caution crept, *This article was printed in the North American Review in two instalments, in May, 1905, and July, 1907. The growth of the literary drama in the last fifteen years has been so marked, and plays of such high quality have been put upon the stage by new writers like Barrie, Synge, Masefield, Kennedy, Moody, Sheldon, and others, that these prophecies and reflections may seem out of date. The article is retained, notwithstanding, for whatever there may be in it that is true of drama in general. Till declamation roared whilst passion slept. Yet still did Virtue deign the stage to tread; Philosophy remained though nature fled. But, forced at length her ancient reign to quit, She saw great Faustus lay the ghost of wit: Exulting Folly hailed the joyful day, And pantomime and song confirmed her sway--- That is, as has been complained a hundred times before and since, the opera and the spectacular show drove the legitimate drama from the stage. The theatre, indeed, is not dead: it has continued to live and to flourish, and is furnishing...
The Connecticut Wits and Other Essays
The Connecticut Wits and Other Essays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Connecticut Wits and Other Essays write by Henry A. Beers. This book was released on 2013-03-01. The Connecticut Wits and Other Essays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bonded Leather binding
