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A motley jest

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A compact collection of comic dramatic pastiches that adopts Shakespearean language and stagecraft to invent new scenes and playful continuations of familiar plays. The pieces range from a fantastical island tableau to imagined courtly encounters, combining songs, stage directions, and mock-editorial notes to blend burlesque with affectionate homage. Humor and theatricality drive the sketches, which probe identity, authority, and performance even as they satirize dramatic conventions. The result is a light, inventive sequence of theatrical diversions that reworks canonical forms for witty commentary and imaginative theatrical pleasure.

A Motley Jest

SHAKESPEAREAN
DIVERSIONS


AUTHOR OF “A DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN AUTHORS,” “THE
STORY OF JANE AUSTEN’S LIFE,” “SICUT PATRIBUS
AND OTHER VERSE,” ETC.; AMERICAN EDITOR
OF THE HENRY IRVING SHAKESPEARE,
ETC.





BOSTON
Sherman, French & Company
1909