Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Contrast: A Comedy in Five Acts
In reproducing in a separate volume a play of the eighteenth, in this the twentieth century, the writer feels certain of interesting all students of early American drama and literature, and especially so, since it has been possible to present for the first time, in the Introduction by the granddaughter of Royall Tyler, new and interesting information about the author, the play, and the times in which it was written.
Montrose J. Moses, in his "Representative Plays," says: "Whether the intrinsic merits of the play would contribute to the amusement of audiences to-day is to be doubted, although it is a striking dramatic curio. The play in the reading is scarcely exciting. It is surprisingly devoid of situation. Its chief characteristic is 'talk, ' but that talk, reflective in its spirit of 'The School for Scandal, ' is interesting to the social student."
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