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Neither Wallner nor Moser invited audiences to their theatre to study character but only to smile at the good humored caricature of their own foibles. To look for high comedy here would be not only to invite but to deserve disappointment. But the exaggerated treatment of idio syncrasies will be more easily enjoyed if it is applied to a nation or class foreign to the spectator. Hence Moser lays the scene Of this play in England, which for genera tions has been the familiar hunting-ground of German humorists and a mark for the shafts of a somewhat jealous ridicule. But all this is purely external, and as far as the es sence of the play is concerned the scene might as well have been laid in Moser's own house at gorlitz or in Thomas More's Utopia. 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.
