Excerpt from The Revolutionist: A Play in Five Acts As well as looking for more freedom in the making of the play, we should look for more logic and coherence in the construction and writing. To this end Irish writers would be well advised in following French usage in the distinction of scenes. With us a change of scene means a change of place: with the French a change of persons in any one place is a change of scene; every new grouping of persons, therefore, even though it be constituted by the en trance or exit of a single person (we might except a servant or a follower) making a new scene. Such a rule is a clear protection against the introduction of unnecessary persons saying or doing irrelevant things - one should pause before giving a superfluous character the importance of making a scene. Were we to adopt this rule, it would save us in some measure at least from what is illogical and irrelevant. 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.