Excerpt from Drei Kleine Lustspiele OF the three little plays in this v'olume, the first and second are by Roderich Benedix, one of the most industri ous and popular of modern German playwrights. He was born in Leipzig in 1811, and died in 1873, after a wander ing and versatile career in which he had been by turns 01 together, actor, opera singer, dramatic author, theatrical manager, and editor of a literary journal. His complete dramatic works in twenty-seven small volumes were pub lished at irregular intervals from 1846 to 1874, and a selec tion from them has since been reprinted in a cheap and popular edition, while forty-six of his little comedies and monologues have been collected in the two volumes of his Haustlzeater. F rom this the present plays are taken with such changes only as are necessary to make them corre spond with the received standard Prussian orthography, which is seldom or never consistently employed by Ger man dramatic publishers. 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.