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Updated: May 18, 2025
Here closed the first act of my life; the second closed when I left Venice in 1783, and probably the third will close here, as I amuse myself by writing these memoirs. Thus, the three-act comedy will finish, and if it be hissed, as may possibly be the case, I shall not hear the sounds of disapproval.
So we find him writing songs, the three Japanese lyrics, for instance, that are epigrammatic in their brevity; a piece for string-quartet that is played in fifty seconds; a three-act opera that can be performed in thirty minutes. But it is no experiment in form that he is making.
If European culture had not been transplanted to America, the same three-act drama of human development would there be playing. Vico carries this threefold division into his consideration of manners, laws, languages, character, etc. On Vico cf.
And when was love ever serious in a three-act comedy on or off the stage?" He leaned forward in his seat, screwed in his eye-glass, and lazily scanned the stalls. The orchestra was playing a Hungarian dance its erratic harmonies and wild alternations of expression falling abruptly across the pinks and blues, the gilding and lights of the pretty, conventional theatre.
"Nor moved much in in gin'ral fash'nable sassiety?" "Not yet," interposed Phoebe, with an air of faint apology. "Nor seen any of them large posters on the fences, of 'The Prairie Flower; or, Red-handed Dick, three-act play with five tableaux, just the biggest sensation out, runnin' for forty nights, money turned away every night, standin' room only?" continued Jim, with prolonged toleration.
"Divorce" had just settled down for its long run, when one evening I received a letter whose weight and bulk made me wonder whether the envelope contained a "last will and testament" or a "three-act play."
Here I drew up in my pocket-book the detailed plan of a three-act opera on the 'Venusberg, and subsequently carried out the composition of this work in strict accordance with the sketch I then made. One day, when climbing the Wostrai, I was astonished, on turning the corner of a valley, to hear a merry dance tune whistled by a goatherd perched up on a crag.
Alexandrian precept, handed on by Horace, gave to the five act division a purely arbitrary sanction, which induced playwrights to mask the natural rhythm of their themes beneath this artificial one. But in truth the three-act division ought no more to be elevated into an absolute rule than the five-act division.
You look completely fagged out." Farquaharson nodded. His weariness, which excitement had momentarily mitigated had returned with a heavy sense of dreariness. He was being called upon now not to rehearse a company in the interpreting of his three-act comedy, but to act himself, without rehearsal, in a drama to which no last act could bring a happy ending. "I am tired," he admitted.
They would appear to have studied "attitude" from the pages of the London Journal, coquetry from barmaids the commoner class of barmaids, I mean wit from three-act farces, and manners from the servants'-hall.
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