In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
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In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.
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