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Theatricals

Theatricals is a book of two plays by Henry James published in 1894. The plays, Tenants and Disengaged, had failed to be produced, so James put them out in book form with a rueful preface about his inability to get the plays onto the stage.


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“The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.”

Henry James book Theatricals

Theatricals: Second Series (1895).

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