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Plays: Being: An Unhistorical Pastoral: A Romantic Farce: Bruce, a Chronicle Play: Smith, a Tragic Farce: And Scaramouch in Naxos, a Pantomime.

1884

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Plays: Being: An Unhistorical Pastoral: A Romantic Farce: Bruce, a Chronicle Play: Smith, a Tragic Farce: And Scaramouch in Naxos, a Pantomime.

Unknown

1884

British Literature, Plays/Films/Dramas

A theatrical curiosity from 1884, this collection gathers five experimental plays that deliberately subvert dramatic convention. 'An Unhistorical Pastoral' opens with King Alardo and his companion Conrad, recently returned from a voyage haunted by the loss of Alardo's son Rupert, vanished at sea. Amidst their mourning, a shepherd named Cinthio aspires to a maid above his station, weaving royal grief with rustic longing. The collection cycles through modes: a Romantic Farce, a Chronicle Play called 'Bruce,' a Tragic Farce under the name 'Smith,' and closes with 'Scaramouch in Naxos,' a pantomime. What unites these pieces is their playful disregard for historical accuracy and genre purity, mixing nobility with peasants, tragedy with farce, in true Victorian theatrical fashion. The anonymous author clearly delighted in theatrical experiment, collapsing the distance between court and countryside, laughter and loss. For readers curious about the eccentric margins of late Victorian drama, or anyone who delights in genre-bending theatricality, this offers an odd, charming artifact that refuses to take itself too seriously while quietly mattering.

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