Excerpt from A Review of Hamlet Miles was especially adapted to the work of dramatic criticism, for he was him self a practised writer and dramatist. At the age of twenty-four he had written a tragedy, Mohammed, which, against a hundred competitors, had gained the prize of one thousand dollars that was offered by Edwin Forrest, the great actor and philanthropist, for the best tragedy in five acts by an American writer. Five years later his tragedy of De Soto was pro duced by James E. Murdock, an eminent tragedian, and was ...
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Excerpt from A Review of Hamlet Miles was especially adapted to the work of dramatic criticism, for he was him self a practised writer and dramatist. At the age of twenty-four he had written a tragedy, Mohammed, which, against a hundred competitors, had gained the prize of one thousand dollars that was offered by Edwin Forrest, the great actor and philanthropist, for the best tragedy in five acts by an American writer. Five years later his tragedy of De Soto was pro duced by James E. Murdock, an eminent tragedian, and was performed in nearly all parts of the United States. After some years more of literary work in writing plays, novels, and poems, Miles accepted the Professorship of English Literature at the University of Mount St. Mary's, Maryland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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