Two Old Comedies
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Excerpt from Two Old Comedies: The Belle´s Stratagem and the Wonder The note that is always audible in the old English comedies is the note of gallantry. The predominant impulse that animates their people is the impulse of desire. The figures that glisten and sparkle through their flowery and fragrant labyrinths of artifice, equivoque, raillery, frolic, and intrigue are the representative figures of languishing allurement, tantalizing witchery, gleeful mischief, and audacious and exultant animal life. In almost every one of them there is an enchanting maid or a superb widow, to be pursued and captured by a potential rake whom marriage will reform, or there is a wild and reckless cavalier, whom the omnipotent charms of awful and irresistible beauty are finally to invest with the rosy curb of the matrimonial yoke. Ardent man nimbly careers after enticing woman, and lovely and capricious woman exerts all her arts, either to allure or elude her follower, or discomfit her rival, or subdue her captor, or augment her triumphs. The time is always mating time, and the sole question is the question whether courtship will prosper and love prevail. Some of those old plays are grossly carnal and vulgar. Some of them are only coarse. Many of them are artificial and brittle. All of them burn with the fire of pleasure and palpitate with the warmth of physical enjoyment - "The glow of young desire and purple light of love." It would be easy to go into hysterics of disapprobation of their frequent immorality. Macaulay led the way in that. Vile enough some of them are, in the pages of such writers as Etherege and Sedley and Dryden and Aphra Behn. 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.
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