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...mass of men and women before him, their warmly sympathetic faces turned towards him. As he commenced to read, his high-bridged nose took on a stern aquilinity; the lines on his forehead and about his lips grew deeper. From time to time he looked up from his manuscript and down among his audience at a person here, a person there. Over such would pass first a qualm at the sincerity and the certainty and the complete integrity of the speaker's conscientiously thought out personal creed. Then would surge up a complete agreement with the views expounded. He carried...
...native country, Burmah. Mrs. Chan Toon was a childhood friend of the poet, and one day, having neglected to acknowledge a book she had sent him, he despatched to her, not a novel laid in Burmah, but this masque or scenario for a "fairy play." Mrs. Toon guarded the manuscript. For Love of the King was not published until 1922 in England, not until...
...displaced the Oldenburgs upon the Danish throne. The Oldenburgs, notably Frederik VI, had been patrons of Hans Andersen. Hence Fabulist Andersen's friends warned him that the publication of the story might brand him as disloyal to the new reigning house. Ever easily frightened, he cautiously suppressed the manuscript, which was only recently unearthed by Herr Julius Clausen of the Royal Library at Copenhagen...
...Benediktbeurer Weihmachts spiel," though of German origin, was written in Latin about 1200 A.D. and was discovered in a thirteenth century manuscript in the monastery of Benediktbeurer in southern Germany. In several respects it is unique. It has a long introduction, the Prophets' Play; Joseph has no lines to speak and Mary only one or two; the Devil appears to the shepherds in the field; and there is a long epilogue recounting events in Egypt...
Robinson translated the play from the Latin reprint of this manuscript found in the collection, Deutsche Nationalliteratur. The prologue has been adapted to the production by Professor Kuno Francke, Honorary Curator of the Germanic Museum...