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Diminutive dramas

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A collection of brief dramatic sketches reimagines episodes from history, myth, and literature as wry, conversational scenes. Each vignette stages encounters between well‑known figures that reduce grand narratives to intimate, comic moments, exposing vanities, domestic quibbles, and artistic foibles. The pieces rely on irony, learned allusion, and anachronistic banter to deflate heroic rhetoric, turning large events into small human dramas and highlighting the absurdity and humor that lie beneath purported greatness.

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Title: Diminutive dramas

Author: Maurice Baring

Release date: January 10, 2026 [eBook #77668]

Language: English

Original publication: BOSTON: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911

Credits: Dori Allard and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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