The Rehearsal: First Acted 7 Dec. 1671, Published July) 1672; With Illustrations From Previous Plays, Etc (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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To ridicule thefe rhyming mouthing plays and with not a little perfonality - after the common cuflom of that time - to attack their authors, were the chief objects of Villiers and his coadjutors in writing The Radar/bl Its merit however is as much in its con caption as in its execution in feeing that the popular rant was rant, and in determining to expofe it: as in writing the {ludied nonfenfe of which this play is largely compofed. Hence, the importance of T11: re/imrfal in our national literature, is not {0 much from its intrinfic merits, mofl laughable as are fome of the parodies; but from its marking - defpite a partial failure to influence at the time - a bend in the dream of dramatic compofition.
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To ridicule thefe rhyming mouthing plays and with not a little perfonality - after the common cuflom of that time - to attack their authors, were the chief objects of Villiers and his coadjutors in writing The Radar/bl Its merit however is as much in its con caption as in its execution in feeing that the popular rant was rant, and in determining to expofe it: as in writing the {ludied nonfenfe of which this play is largely compofed. Hence, the importance of T11: re/imrfal in our national literature, is not {0 much from its intrinfic merits, mofl laughable as are fome of the parodies; but from its marking - defpite a partial failure to influence at the time - a bend in the dream of dramatic compofition.
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