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Routledge's XXth Century Ladies' Reciter

Routledge's XXth Century Ladies' Reciter

E.A. Sutton
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PREFACE:

“This present volume is an attempt to bring together a considerable number of selections suitable for Lady Reciters. I hope it may be the means of occasionally preventing the voicing by ladies of verses in which the supposed speaker is one of the sterner sex.

How often have audiences listened, without much chance of conviction to such dramatic recitations as “Lasca,” “Fra Giacomo,” or “Prince,” as rendered by the Lady Reciter; who, I venture to think, would have been wisest to leave such pieces alone.

In compiling this book I have divided it into two parts: the first more or less serious in character, and the second made up of humorous selections, amongst which will be found numerous pieces well adapted for “encores”; or for occasions when lengthy recitations would be undesirable …”
Language
English
Pages
184
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
George Routledge & Sons
Release
May 10, 2022

Routledge's XXth Century Ladies' Reciter

E.A. Sutton
3/5 ( ratings)
PRE-ISBN

PREFACE:

“This present volume is an attempt to bring together a considerable number of selections suitable for Lady Reciters. I hope it may be the means of occasionally preventing the voicing by ladies of verses in which the supposed speaker is one of the sterner sex.

How often have audiences listened, without much chance of conviction to such dramatic recitations as “Lasca,” “Fra Giacomo,” or “Prince,” as rendered by the Lady Reciter; who, I venture to think, would have been wisest to leave such pieces alone.

In compiling this book I have divided it into two parts: the first more or less serious in character, and the second made up of humorous selections, amongst which will be found numerous pieces well adapted for “encores”; or for occasions when lengthy recitations would be undesirable …”
Language
English
Pages
184
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
George Routledge & Sons
Release
May 10, 2022

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