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Excerpt from Songs From the Dramatists
French drama we find nothing of the sort, partly because the French poets are not so naturally lyric, and partly because a musical training had not been given to the French actors in the remote beginnings when Hardy was setting the pattern for the later and more literary drama. Even when a French dramatist is obviously lyrical, as Corneille is seen to be sometimes and Victor Hugo often, his lyricism takes the form not of the song, but of the set speech. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
