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Updated: June 26, 2025
When we recall the manner in which "The Angelus" was paraded through the country a few years ago, and the genuine sentiment of the simple scene where Millet had endeavored to express "the things that lie flat, like a plain; and the things that stand up," like his peasants was travestied by gushing sentimentalists, it is pleasant to think of the wholesome common sense of the great painter.
It may be shown by an analysis of Wycherley's Plain Dealer, a coarse prose adaption of the Misanthrope, stuffed with lumps of realism in a vulgarized theme to hit the mark of English appetite, that we have in it the keynote of the Comedy of our stage. It is Moliere travestied, with the hoof to his foot and hair on the pointed tip of his ear.
From the first, they played amateur comedy at Malmaison, which was a relaxation the First Consul enjoyed greatly, but in which he took no part himself except that of looker-on. Every one in the house attended these representations; and I must confess we felt perhaps even more pleasure than others in seeing thus travestied on the stage those in whose service we were.
"It is even a sad truth," replied Sir Mungo, "that your lordship was but too like to have died on a scaffold not a soul to speak for you but that deluded lassie Maggie Ramsay." "Whom mean you?" said Nigel, with more interest than he had hitherto shown in the Knight's communications. "Nay, who should I mean, but that travestied lassie whom we dined with when we honoured Heriot the goldsmith?
She knew herself better than any one knew her, except Henderson, and even he was forced to laugh when she travestied Browning in saying that she had one soul-side to face the world with, one to show the man she loved, and she declared he was downright coarse when on going out of the door he muttered, "But it needn't be the seamy side."
Then we met Sárvölgyi very seldom; the academy is a great forest and men are not forced together as on the benches of a grammar-school. "Just at the very climax of the French war, the idea struck us to edit a written newspaper among ourselves." "We travestied with humorous score in our paper all that the 'Augsburger' delivered with great pathos: those who read laughed at it.
"Simply, that I was in the ante-room when she had audience, and heard the king say, to my great perplexity, 'Pulchra sane puella; and Maxwell, who hath but indifferent Latin ears, thought that his Majesty called on him by his own name of Sawney, and thrust into the presence, and there I saw our Sovereign James, with his own hand, raising up the lassie, who, as I said heretofore, was travestied in man's attire.
They changed his name, clad him in Frenchified garments, bound a many-colored handkerchief around his head, put a cigarette in his mouth, and cautioned him against replying in his native tongue to questions that might be asked. Thus travestied, it was boldly predicted that he would not be taken for an Englishman.
In character-drawing he certainly overcharged the traits: but he did so with intention, and by consistently heightening the tones throughout obtained an artistic impression, which had life behind it, however ingeniously travestied. His stories have no unity of action, but through a great diversity of characters and incidents they maintain their unity of treatment.
Nothing was more fancifully dignified, or more quaintly travestied by that light than the figures around it, busy and flitting about, and showing themselves in every novel variety of grouping and colouring.
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