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INTRODUCTION.

The Monodrama is a species of play, which has not yet, as far as I am able to discover, been attempted by English writers: it was probably too simple to engage their attention, or they might imagine it little calculated to gratify a people who are fond perhaps to excess of the bustle of incident and intricacy of plot. Though the neglect of it cannot be considered of much importance, yet we find many of these poems among the Germans, French and Italians, which are exceedingly pleasing both in the closet and the theatre. When represented on the stage, the Monodrama usually declaimed with intervals of musick.

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