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Identifier: britishtheatre_n07bell (find matches)
Title: British theatre
Year: 1791 (1790s)
Authors: Bell, John, 1745-1831
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Publisher: London : J. Bell
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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t of your character, young man. Bel, The day has been a busy one, thanks to thecommunicative disposition oitlie captain. , Mrs. Eel. And the evening should bechearful. BeL I shant therefore part with one of you, tillwe have had a hearty laugh at our general adventures. Miss WaL They have been very whimsical indeed ;yet if represented on the stage, I hope they would befound not only entertaining, but instructive. Lady R.ack. Instruflive 1 why the modern criticssay that the only business of comedy is to make peo-ple laugh. Bel. That is degrading the dignity of letters ex-ceedingly, as well as lessening the uiility of the stage.—A good comedy is a capital etfort of genius, andshould therefore be dire6fed to tiie noblest purposes. Miss IVct. Very true ; and unless we learn some-thing while we chuckle, the carpenter w-ho nails apantomime together, will be entitled to more applausethan the best comic poet in the kingdom. \_Exeunt omms. THE EKP, AlV TlIE kS V 11 () OIL FORIL DlOClLcS , Jem
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Lonilan.PriiitcAior J.3cll.BriDlhLibTarv; Strau3..JaB.T;;lJ-V7C);^. tHE SCHOOL FOR LOVERS. A COiMEDY, By WILLIAM WHITEHEAD, Esq. ADAPTED FOR THEATRICAL REPRESENTATION^ AS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRES-ROYALjDRURY-LANE AND COVENT-GARDEK. REGULATED FROM THE PROMPT-BOOKS,By Permission of the Managers* The Lines discinguishsd by inverted Commas, are omitted in the Representation LONDON. Printeafor the Proprietors^ under the DireSiion of John Bell, l^xxti^)) Cikar?, Strand,r»o©kseIler to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wax it* MDCC XCIII* ADVERTISEMENT. The following Comedy is formed on a plan of Monsieur deFontenelles, never intended for the stage, and printedin the eighth volume of his works, under the title of Le Testa-ment. The scene of that piece is laid in Greece, and the embarrass-ing circumstances depend oh some peculiarities in the customsof thit country. Slaves likewise, as is usual in the GrecianComedy, zd: as confidants to the principal personages. TheAuthor, therefore, hopes he
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