comedietta

Updated: June 19, 2025

That delightful impression was then unconscious of the blight to come that of my apprehending, years after, that the brilliant comedietta was the tribute of our Anglo-Saxon taste to Alfred de Musset's elegant proverb of the Porte Ouverte ou Fermée, in which nothing could find itself less at home than the horseplay of the English version.

Henry James - A Small Boy and Others