Lillo's Dramatic Works, Vol. 1 of 2 PDF Download

Author: George Lillo
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ISBN: 9781330983294
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Excerpt from Lillo's Dramatic Works, Vol. 1 of 2: With Memoirs of the Author; Containing Mr. Lillo's Life; Silvia or the Country Burial, an Opera; George Barnwell, a Tragedy; The Life of Scanderbeg; The Christian Hero, a Tragedy Sir, Permit me to claim your patronage for the works of George Lillo, an author whose dramatic scenes are rich in plain sense and strong passion, in truth of character and sound moral. The world is indebted to this writer for the invention of a new species of dramatic poetry, which may properly be termed the inferior or lesser tragedy. Otway, Southern and Rowe had indeed taught the Tragic Muse a softer tone, and had lowered the buskin, to adapt it to characters beneath the rank of Kings, and Demigods; but still the persons of their Dramas, though less illustrious, were of the noble and elevated order. Lillo formed his plots from private histories, and his characters seldom rose higher than the middle class of life. 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.