Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Lying Valet; A Peep Behind the Curtain, or the New Rehearsal; Bon Ton, or High Life Above Stairs: Three Farces
Three of the best and most popular of these farces are here reprinted. Besides preserving something of the atmosphere of the eighteenth century playhouses and illu minating the tastes and fashions of the time, they furnish a copious supply of genuine if obvious humor and reveal the ingenuity of the great theatrical genius of the century. There have been no recent editions of Gar rick's works. None of the farces here given has been reprinted since the appearance of The Lying Valet in The British Drama, Philadelphia, 18 50. The present plays have been chosen because of their possibilities for modern representation and for their variety of plot. As it happens, they were written at widely separated periods of Garrick's career, and they are here arranged in chronological order.
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