French Dramatists of the 19th Century

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Pinafore' and the 'Pirates of Penzance.' Especially to be noted is the same perfectly serious pushing of the dramatic commonplaces to an absurd conclusion. There is the same kind of humor too, and the same girding at the stock-tricks of stage-craft, in ' H. M. S. Pinafore ' at the swopping of children in the cradle, and in ' Tri- coche et Cacolet ' at the " portrait of my mother," which has drawn so many tears in modern melodrama. Even the exaggerated sense of duty which bound the 'pren- tice t
...o the pirates also holds iirmly the conscience of Bernardine. But MM. Meilhac and Haldvy, having made one success, did not further attempt the same kind of pleasantry, — wiser in this than Mr. Gilbert, who seems to find it hard to write any thing else.
As in the 'Chateau k Toto ' MM. Meilhac and Haldvy had made a modern perversion of the ' Dame Blanche,' so in the ' Cigale ' did they dress up afresh the story of the 'Fille du Regiment.' As the poet asks, — " Ah, World of ours, are you so gray.


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