Excerpt from The Extravaganzas of J. R. Planche, Esq., (Somerset Herald) 1825-1871, Vol. 1 I cannot better evince my deep sense of the obligation I am under to the kind friends who have paid me this high and gratifying compliment than in endeavouring to impart to this edition of my Extravaganzas an interest for the general reader which they do not intrinsically possess, by the addition of notes, biographical and anecdotical, concerning the many eminent artists who have contributed to their popularity, the managements by which they were produced, and all other information which may tend to illustrate the history of the London stage, from my personal experience, during the last Sixty years. 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.