Excerpt from Do's and Don'ts for the Playwright: A Manual for the Writer of Plays for Amateurs In Harry Osborne's very able and comprehensive little manual, How to Stage a Play, published by T. S. Denison 8: Company, he says there are four things that go to make up a successful amateur pro duction, and the first of these is the play. I would amend this to say, especially for amateur companies, the first of these is the playwright. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.