- Performer Name:
- Pradel
- Performance Venue:
- Paris
- Performance Date:
- 1833
- Author:
- Date Written:
- 1833
- Language:
- English
- Publication Title:
- The Court Magazine
- Article Title:
- Continental Chit-Chat
- Page Numbers:
- 2:iii [in appendix; p. 365 in collected volume]
- Additional Info:
- Publisher:
- Edward Bull
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Date Published:
- 1833
Text:
At the Salle Chantereine, M. E. de Pradel has improvised his four hundred and thirty-seventh tragedy in verse! We shall attend a second recitation; but wish that, for the sake of variety, M. de Pradel would turn his thoughts towards extemporising comedy in prose. We hesitate not to express our opinion that, whatever may be the merit of turning out a tragedy in this way, the accomplishment of a comedy would be found more difficult. Comedy depends upon subtler principles: it requires a ready wit, and an intimate knowledge of the habits, the foibles, and the eccentricities of society; and affords no opportunity for sounding nothingness, or exaggerated sentiments.
Notes:
- Collected by:
- EW