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Broad Grins

by George Colman

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Three alehouse companions sit over the embers, arguing about poets, playwrights and the fashion for ghostly novels. Their debate introduces George Colman's comic tales in verse, where grand literary language repeatedly runs into ordinary inconveniences. In one tale, a lonely country house, a cook called Molly Dumpling and a gardener provide the ingredients for a parody of ominous storytelling. Even a creaking door receives a practical explanation.

The collection brings together pieces formerly published as My Night-Gown and Slippers with additional verse tales. Colman's prefatory exchange with his booksellers shares the poems' fondness for puns and jokes about writing itself. Elsewhere, a knight and his powerful servant become entangled in a farcical attempt to move a fallen friar. Rhymes, interruptions and exaggerated comparisons keep the narrator conspicuously present.

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George Colman

George Colman worked throughout English theatre, writing, managing, and adapting plays with a stagecraft that joined literary comedy to the practical demands of performance. A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763) reshapes material from A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

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Reading time
About 55 minutes
Pages
64
Language
English
Genre
Satire
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