Excerpt from Kate: A Comedy in Four Acts Purpose, all the technicalities of the stage are utterly ignored in this comedy as here printed; and even the names of the speakers are not constantly repeated as heretofore thought necessary in all dramatic publications. Their continual and useless repetition, wearying to the eye and a bar to the natural move ment of thought, is no more necessary to the reader of a play than to the reader of the occasional dialogues in a novel. So far as the mere form of the play is concerned the author wishes if possible to carry the imagi nation directly to scenes of real life and not to the stage To ask a man sitting in a library first to imagine himself in a theatre, then to imagine himself somewhere else, is to obscure if not destroy the true dramatic effect of what he reads. We make every. 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.