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Masks and faces

First published: 1852
Pages: 73

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Masks and Faces is a historical comedy play written by Charles Reade and Tom Taylor. The play was so prosperous that the following year, Reade wrote a novel Peg Woffington” which was also a major hit. The play and the subsequent novel inspired several films, especially made during the silent era.

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Charles Reade

Charles Reade was a Victorian novelist and dramatist who built fiction from documentary research, theatrical practice, and contemporary social disputes. Masks and faces began as an 1852 comedy written with Tom Taylor and centered on the eighteenth-century actor Peg Woffington; Reade later reshaped its material into the novel Peg Woffington.