Lanterna Rally

Author: Laurence Housman

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-19

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9781331815174

Excerpt from Followers of St. Francis: Four Plays of the Early Franciscan Legend Only one of the four Franciscan plays which here follow has any close incidental connection with the life of St. Francis; and that is the only one which might properly have a place found for it in the Little Plays. But while continuing to illustrate the Franciscan legend in dramatic form, I did not intend to make a constructive sequel, and would sooner have let the Little Plays stand without further addition, if this small overflow had not come quite spontaneously, and rather against my arranged plan, which gave the preceding Cycle a fairly definite starting-point and a still more definite end. To force these other plays into the series would be a dislocating process, since all but the first would have to follow 'Sister Death, ' an obvious anti-climax, destructive to the main scheme. I would therefore ask my readers to regard these additional plays rather as commentaries on what has gone before, brought to life by the fact that Franciscanism retained its dramatic character after its founder was dead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.