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Patriotism and Popular Education: With Some Thoughts Upon English Work and English Play, Our Evening Amusements, Shakespeare and the Condition of Our ... English Politics, Before the War, Nationa
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However brokenly or mistakenly I have written, no Englishman has ever addressed his countrymen under the weight and shadow of greater events, or upon mat ters Of more supreme importance. Involved as we are in still gathering national perplexities and Obscurities, I may be excused for lighting up my little lantern, if haply we can discern where we are and whither we may be wandering.
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However brokenly or mistakenly I have written, no Englishman has ever addressed his countrymen under the weight and shadow of greater events, or upon mat ters Of more supreme importance. Involved as we are in still gathering national perplexities and Obscurities, I may be excused for lighting up my little lantern, if haply we can discern where we are and whither we may be wandering.
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.
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First published September 27, 2015
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Henry Arthur Jones
107 books2 followersHenry Arthur Jones was an English dramatist.
Jones was born at Granborough, Buckinghamshire to Silvanus Jones, a farmer. He began to earn his living early, his spare time being given to literary pursuits. He was twenty-seven before his first piece, Only Round the Corner, was produced at the Exeter Theatre, but within four years of his debut as a dramatist he scored a great success with The Silver King (November 1882), written with Henry Herman, a melodrama produced by Wilson Barrett at the Princess's Theatre, London. Its financial success enabled the author to write a play "to please himself."
Saints and Sinners (1884), which ran for two hundred nights, placed on the stage a picture of middle-class life and religion in a country town, and the introduction of the religious element raised considerable outcry. The author defended himself in an article published in the Nineteenth century (January 1885), taking for his starting-point a quotation from the preface to Molière's Tartuffe.
His next serious piece was The Middleman (1889), followed by Judah (1890), both powerful plays, which established his reputation.
Jones was born at Granborough, Buckinghamshire to Silvanus Jones, a farmer. He began to earn his living early, his spare time being given to literary pursuits. He was twenty-seven before his first piece, Only Round the Corner, was produced at the Exeter Theatre, but within four years of his debut as a dramatist he scored a great success with The Silver King (November 1882), written with Henry Herman, a melodrama produced by Wilson Barrett at the Princess's Theatre, London. Its financial success enabled the author to write a play "to please himself."
Saints and Sinners (1884), which ran for two hundred nights, placed on the stage a picture of middle-class life and religion in a country town, and the introduction of the religious element raised considerable outcry. The author defended himself in an article published in the Nineteenth century (January 1885), taking for his starting-point a quotation from the preface to Molière's Tartuffe.
His next serious piece was The Middleman (1889), followed by Judah (1890), both powerful plays, which established his reputation.
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