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Title: The Dramatist; or Stop Him Who Can!
A Comedy, in Five Acts

Author: Frederick Reynolds

Release Date: February 23, 2010 [eBook #31374]

Language: English

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THE DRAMATIST;
OR,
STOP HIM WHO CAN!

A Comedy, in Five Acts;

by

FREDERICK REYNOLDS.

As Performed at the
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden.

Printed Under the Authority of the Managers
from the Prompt Book.

With Remarks by Mrs Inchbald.

[Illustration: DRAMATIST

VAPID--PROLOGUE OR EPILOGUE! I'M YOUR MAN:--I'LL WRITE YOU BOTH.

ACT II. SCENE II

PAINTED BY SINGLETON. PUBLISHD BY LONGMAN & CO. ENGRAVD BY ENGLEHEART.]

London:
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,
Paternoster Row.

Edinburgh:
Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.

REMARKS.

Plays of former times were written to be read, not seen. Dramatic
authors succeeded in their aim; their works were placed in libraries,
and the theatres were deserted.--Now, plays are written to be seen, not
read--and present authors gain their views; for they and the managers
are enriched, and the theatres crowded.

To be both seen and read at the present day, is a degree of honour,
which, perhaps, not one comic dramatist can wholly boast, except
Shakspeare. Exclusive of his, scarcely any of the very best comedies of
the best of former bards will now attract an audience: yet the genius of
ancient writers was assisted by various tales, for plots, of which they
have deprived the moderns; they had, besides, the privilege to write
without either political or moral