Comedies for Amateur Acting
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Excerpt from Comedies for Amateur Acting: Edited, With a Prefatory Note on Private Theatricals An aspiring amateur actor once asked a celebrated dramatic critic, "What did you think of the performance of our club?" And the cruel critic is said to have answered, slowly and with a slight drawl, "I should hardly have called it a club; it seemed to me more like a collection of sticks." At another private performance, it was either Garrick or Kean who exclaimed involuntarily, "There is an actor," when the footman of the play presented a letter - and it turned out that, none of the amateurs being willing to accept so small a part, a professional "utility man" had been engaged from the theatre. The player was probably not the equal of his noble and gentle associates in intelligence or in education, but he knew his business. And it was his business - for them it was only amusement. Yet many of them were doubtless told, and some of them perhaps believed, that they had only to desire success on the stage to find it within their grasp. They believed, in short, that they could be actors if they chose; in truth, they were only amateurs. Charles Lamb reports Coleridge as having said: "There is an infinity of trick in all that Shakspere wrote: I could write like Shakspere if I had a mind." 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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