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082			_a822.082 CRA
100			_aCrawfurd, Oswald.
245			_a English comic dramatists _c/ Oswald Crawfurd.
260			_aLondon _b : Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., _c , 1883.
300			_axxiii, 283 p. _c ; 16 cm.
520			_aIt is well thus to make a somewhat dogmatic definition of Comedy, that the critical reader may know what he is to expect in the selections from our English Comic Dramatists. He will see at once how far afield his selector has been able to go, and where he has had to draw the line. Having regard only to the providing of good and interesting reading, he might have quoted largely from our Romantic Drama, in which our literature is exceptionally rich, or from our Farce Drama, to which we have something of an Italian leaning, but to do this would have required folios, not a single small volume. In making the selections from the Comic Dramatists which are to follow, it has been the endeavour of the author not merely to put together at haphazard a number of comedy scenes that shall amuse and entertain the reader of them, but to give him in a succinct form something which shall thoroughly represent English comedy literature. Each scene from a play is preceded by a sketch of the plot sufficient to make the scene intelligible.
650			_a English drama
650			_aComedy
650			_aEnglish comic
700			_aOswald Crawfurd.
942			_cVC OFFICE
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