Excerpt from The Drawing-Room Stage: A Series of Original Dramas, Comedies, Farces, and Entertainments for Amateur Theatricals and School Exhibitions Scenery and costumes, the absence of strained and un natural spouting, and, as far as possible in dealing with every-day characters, the omission of slang. Were this latter excluded altogether, a good play might be written, but the best-natured audience would fail to find characters, or to be amused, and the strongest railer against this custom of American society be the first to turn his back upon the tedious performance. For the many favorable notices by the press of his previous works, the author returns thanks; to his unfavorable critics, he can only say, that as dramatic composition with him is but a pastime, and not an occupation, per. 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.