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The Foundling of the Forest: a Play in Three Acts, Etc.
Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."Ê Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books. There are now 65,000Ê titles availableÊ (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such asÊ Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems , all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon. Further information on The British Library and its digitisation programme can be found on The British Library website.
86 pages, Paperback
First published February 23, 2012
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May 16, 2021
When looking for a play for my characters to attend, I found this one performed at the Theatre Royal in Bath in the proper timeframe and gave it a read.
In addition to being a successful actor and theater manager over his career, Dimond was an entirely adequate playwright, judging by this work. A young lady and her grief-disturbed uncle expect the return from the wars of his ward Florian, who became a part of the household after being discovered in the forest as an abandoned infant. Meanwhile, the young lady's suitor Longueville wants to ambush Florian so he can get the girl and the estate. Geraldine's maid and Florian's valet provide comic relief and a surprisingly hands-on parallel romance.
The whole wife-and-child-lost-in-a-fire-set-by-Huguenots plot thread might be fairly fresh, but its resolution here is pretty danged predictable, so I had to have one of my characters say as much.
Unless you like to read plays mentioned in books (Lovers' Vows, anyone?), this summary is probably as close as you'll ever come to reading it.
In addition to being a successful actor and theater manager over his career, Dimond was an entirely adequate playwright, judging by this work. A young lady and her grief-disturbed uncle expect the return from the wars of his ward Florian, who became a part of the household after being discovered in the forest as an abandoned infant. Meanwhile, the young lady's suitor Longueville wants to ambush Florian so he can get the girl and the estate. Geraldine's maid and Florian's valet provide comic relief and a surprisingly hands-on parallel romance.
The whole wife-and-child-lost-in-a-fire-set-by-Huguenots plot thread might be fairly fresh, but its resolution here is pretty danged predictable, so I had to have one of my characters say as much.
Unless you like to read plays mentioned in books (Lovers' Vows, anyone?), this summary is probably as close as you'll ever come to reading it.
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