Rejected Addresses; Or, The New Theatrum Poetarum

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James Smith. Rejected Addresses; Or, The New Theatrum Poetarum

Rejected Addresses; Or, The New Theatrum Poetarum

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION

I. LOYAL EFFUSION

III. AN ADDRESS WITHOUT A PHŒNIX. [10a]

IV. CUI BONO?

V. HAMPSHIRE FARMER’S ADDRESS

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE MANAGING COMMITTEE OF DRURY-LANE PLAYHOUSE

IN THE CHARACTER OF A HAMPSHIRE FARMER

VI. THE LIVING LUSTRES

VII. THE REBUILDING

VIII. DRURY’S DIRGE. [38a]

IX. A TALE OF DRURY LANE

X. JOHNSON’S GHOST. [52]

XI. THE BEAUTIFUL INCENDIARY. [56a]

XII. FIRE AND ALE

XIII. PLAYHOUSE MUSINGS

XIV. DRURY-LANE HUSTINGS

XV. ARCHITECTURAL ATOMS

XVI. THEATRICAL ALARM-BELL

XVII. THE THEATRE

A PREFACE OF APOLOGIES

THE THEATRE

XVIII. XIX. XX. TO THE MANAGING COMMITTEE OF THE NEW DRURY LANE THEATRE. [93]

CASE, No. I. MACBETH

CASE, No. II. THE STRANGER. [96]

CASE, No. III. GEORGE BARNWELL. [98]

XXI. PUNCH’S APOTHEOSIS

FOOTNOTES

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Horace Smith, James Smith

Published by Good Press, 2019

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In commenting on a work, however trifling, which has survived the lapse of twenty years, an author may almost claim the privileged garrulity of age; yet even in a professedly gossiping Preface, we begin to fear that we are exceeding our commission, and abusing the patience of the reader. If we are doing so, we might urge extenuating circumstances, which will explain, though they may not excuse, our diffuseness. To one of us the totally unexpected success of this little work proved an important event, since it mainly decided him, some years afterwards, to embark in the literary career which the continued favour of that novel-reading world has rendered both pleasant and profitable to him. This is the first, as it will probably be the last, occasion upon which we shall ever intrude ourselves personally on the public notice; and we trust that our now doing so will stand excused by the reasons we have adduced.

London, March, 1833

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