The Prince's Triumph ; Or, The Three Riddles - A Drama For Home Presentation
by A M Y [ Pritchard, Marion ]
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About This Item
Hirst Smyth and Son, Gower Street, 1878. 1st edition.. Paperback. Limp cloth, VG. [iv]+iv+ii+35pp+2pp publishers adverts, all edges gilt, cloth a little grubby & worn along the spine, ownership signature to the title, Fair copy of an uncommon item - no copies could be located in the British Library or other such academic sources. The play is based upon the plot of Schiller's Turandot ( although the author admits that 'before the play was completed it had become so altered that its origin might be somewhat difficult to recognise" ). It was reviewed thus in the Westminster Review of 1879 : The Prince's Triumph does not aim very high, but at all events it hits its mark, and this is no small achievement amidst so many ambitious failures. It is, in fact, a drama for young people, very carefully worked out, full of interesting situations, and characterised by much dramatic power. This is no small praise, but the little play thoroughly deserves it. Its style is simple and unpretentious. Probably the writer might, if she pleased, do something of a higher order, as she thoroughly understands the meaning of individuality of character and plot-interest. Whether, however, she possesses "the faculty divine," without which no drama can hope to live, we cannot say'.
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- Bookseller
- Eastleach Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59257
- Title
- The Prince's Triumph ; Or, The Three Riddles - A Drama For Home Presentation
- Author
- A M Y [ Pritchard, Marion ]
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Publisher
- Hirst Smyth and Son, Gower Street
- Date Published
- 1878
- Keywords
- theatre, drama, children's literature
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