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Updated: May 11, 2025
He was a boy to be, intellectually, held in leash, said the doctors. But that was easier said than done. What system of sedatives could one apply to a youngster whose imagination wrought him to a fever during a simple walk by the seashore, who if books were forcibly withheld consoled himself with the composition of five-act tragedies, interspersed with lyrics to which he supplied original strains?
He met Crummies, and actually heard him wonder how those things got into the papers. He met the Infant Phenomenon. With his own hands he had helped to adjust the immortal real pump and tubs. He was still in the days when there was a farce in an evening's performance to play the people in, and a solid five-act melodrama for the public's solid fare, and a farce to play the people out.
O ye of little faith! We answered that we didn't insist on a great work; that the five-act tragedy might come at his convenience; that we merely asked for something to keep us from yawning, some inexpensive little lever de rideau. Hereupon the poor man took his stand as a genius misconceived and persecuted, an ame meconnue, and washed his hands of us from that hour!
I accordingly made a plan of a great five-act dramatic poem, which should also be perfectly adapted to a musical setting.
Is it possible that they who wish to found a new order of things do not see that all these pantomime costumes and characters denote nothing but change, that we are only performing a comedy after all? I scarcely expect it will be a five-act one. And, apropos of comedies, when shall we pay our respects to Madame de Lacostellerie?
The era of the Renaissance brought with it in France no poets to sing of Joan of Arc, and we only find besides the mystery play of the Siege of Orleans one literary work relating to her at this period; that is a five-act tragedy written by a Jesuit priest named Fronton du Duc, a gloomy piece, which was acted in 1580 at Pont-
Then, in 1836, he reverted to Marie Touchet, and composed La Gina, a drama in three acts, and Richard the Sponge-Hearted. Finally, in 1839, he wrote for the Renaissance Theatre The School of Married Life, with the obscure aid of Lassailly, a five-act play for which he was offered an award of six thousand francs, and which he himself produced in print.
In these comedies the influence of the new school of Alexandre Dumas fils is plainly visible. And the inclination toward the strong, not to say violent, emotions which Dumas and Angier had imported into comedy is still more evident in Fanny Lear, the first five-act comedy which Meilhac and Halévy wrote together, and which was brought out in 1868.
There was an opera of his partly finished; a five-act comedy almost ready for the stage; a half-executed group he had left in some studio in Rome, showed what he might have done in sculpture.
"Well, I think there's more music in Barbara Allan than all those frothy things," said Madge, with fine scorn. "Come and sing it." "A five-act funeral, it is," groaned Brian, as he rose to obey; "let's have Garry Owen instead."
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