The Fruits of Enlightenment: A Comedy in Four Acts (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Fruits of Enlightenment: A Comedy in Four Acts

Greg. I'll put them up, my lady, at once. [takes down a fur cloak and envelops tanya in it] Tanya, dear, listen to what I've got to say to you.

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Excerpt from The Fruits of Enlightenment: A Comedy in Four Acts

Here in England the habit of reading stage-plays would seem to have fallen into abeyance, and the fact that a play was written with a view to its theatrical representation has of late been sufficient to prejudice its claim to be regarded as literature. Consequently the novel has entirely usurped the place of the printed drama or comedy as the imaginative exposition of character and the entertaining commentary on life. This unsatisfactory state of things may be traced to two or three causes, prominent among which has been the injurious condition of the American copyright law, which till now has constituted the publication of his play a serious financial loss to an author, and indirectly an artistic loss, since his work has become at once the immorally legal prey of the ignorant pirate showman.

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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.