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Excerpt from The Plays of Thomas Love Peacock: Published for the First Time
Characteristic of their author - both as regards Style and subject-matter - will, it is hoped, appeal to the large and growing number of Peacock's admirers. None of the collective editions of Peacock's works make any reference to these plays. Indeed, the only allusion to them is a cursory notice of a few lines in Sir Henry Cole's Bio graphical Notes of T. L. Peacock,' of which ten copies were printed and privately circulated about the year 1875. Yet the fact of this poet and novelist being a playwright as well should not come as a complete surprise. Mrs. Clarke states in her short biographical notice of her grandfather that while on board the Venerable as far back as 1808 he used to write prologues for the plays acted by the sailors. We know also that he con tributed a prologue and epilogue for Tobin's comedy of The Guardians,' which appeared on the stage eight years later. Towards the end of his life Peacock published a translation of the Italian comedy gl'ingannati,' while Lord Houghton has told us that during the same period he wrote the critiques of the opera for the Globe.
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