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afterpieceSupplementary entertainment offered after a full-length play in 18th-century England. A short comedy, farce, or pantomime was presented to lighten the five-act Neoclassical tragedy that was commonly performed. A reduced admission price for latecomers, usually after the third act, enabled less-sophisticated playgoers and working people to see the end of the drama and the one-act afterpiece. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| html and Susan Kattwinkel,
Tony Pastor Presents: Afterpieces from the Vaudeville Stage (1998). Aldridge
then turned the tables on them again by coming out in the afterpiece as
the kind of black man they had expected to see in Othello - a humorous
buffoon singing, dancing, and speaking in black dialect who was not in
full command of his senses or his statements. Martial themes in songs,
playbills, music, dance, spectacle, mainpieces, afterpieces, and
interludes rendered "[servicemen] familiar, sympathetic, and
admirable. |
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