Excerpt from Tales of the Drama: Founded on the Tragedies of Shakespeare, Massinger, Shirley, Rowe, Murphy, Lillo, and Moore, and on the Comedies of Steele, Farquhar, Cumberland, Bickerstaff, Goldsmith, and Mrs. Cowley
It has been much the practice to dramatize Tales, yet there must be, at least, novelty in the attempt. To restore, or to change, the acted Drama to the more popular form of narrative, for the purpose of rendering the real beauties of the British stage more familiar, and better known to the younger class of readers, and even of extending that knowledge to family circles Where the drama itself is forbidden.
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