Identifier: outing51newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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. In 1721 Le Sage was writing plays forpresentation by Polichinelle and his sup-porting company. In the Combat deCyrano de Bergerac, the predecessor ofRostands masterpiece, he figures aspetit Esope de bois, remuant, tournant,virant, dansant, riant, parlant, petant,and again as cet heteroclite marmouset,disons mieux ce drolifique bossu, fit char-acterization of a puppet born to eternalwelcome in French hearts. In England, appearing in the wake ofthe Scriptural motions, themselves thesuccessors of the most ancient of all puppetplays, the old English Mysteries, hecame to a popularity and a finished de-velopment of his art which exist undimin-ished to this day. Such bits of the history of Punch, how-ever, were quite outside the knowledgeof this old showman of yours; but he couldtalk for hours, and entertainingly, too, oflife on the road in rural England, wherehe had traveled, booth on back and withhis coddler or outside man as compan-ion, from one end of the tight little isleto the other.
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