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The theater was the acme of pop-cultural aspiration in the nineteenth century, and few writers pursued peak popularity more ardently than Twain did. Of his several plays, only the first, built around a character created for a novel, was a hit. His hopes were high for the last, however, loaded as it was with proven come-ons: a major man-in-drag character a la the era's biggest hit, Charley's Aunt; a setup--the debt-with-impossible-deadline owed an oily creditor--typical of boffo-BO melodramas of the time; idiotic musical interruptions a la the rising musical-theater mode, vaudeville; and as protagonist, the most famous artist of the century, Francois Millet, whose The Angelus was the first "million-dollar painting." Sound like a hodgepodge? It is. Yet, sparked by enough over-the-top humor, it is laugh-aloud funny to read. It probably won't fly onstage today, though, as editor Fishkin, whose informative afterword is itself practically worth the price of admission, seems to think. The pilots it needs--the Marx Brothers and W. C. Fields--are long gone. Ray Olson
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"Sparked by enough over-the-top humor, it is laugh-aloud funny to read."--Booklist -- Review
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The theater was the acme of pop-cultural aspiration in the nineteenth century, and few writers pursued peak popularity more ardently than Twain did. Of his several plays, only the first, built around a character created for a novel, was a hit. His hopes were high for the last, however, loaded as it was with proven come-ons: a major man-in-drag character a la the era's biggest hit, Charley's Aunt; a setup--the debt-with-impossible-deadline owed an oily creditor--typical of boffo-BO melodramas of the time; idiotic musical interruptions a la the rising musical-theater mode, vaudeville; and as protagonist, the most famous artist of the century, Francois Millet, whose The Angelus was the first "million-dollar painting." Sound like a hodgepodge? It is. Yet, sparked by enough over-the-top humor, it is laugh-aloud funny to read. It probably won't fly onstage today, though, as editor Fishkin, whose informative afterword is itself practically worth the price of admission, seems to think. The pilots it needs--the Marx Brothers and W. C. Fields--are long gone. Ray Olson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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"Sparked by enough over-the-top humor, it is laugh-aloud funny to read."--Booklist -- Review
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- The Mark Twain Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by J.r. Lemaster on 8 pages
- The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain by Gregg Camfield on page 183
- Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays: Volume 2: 1891-1910 (Library of America) by Mark Twain in Index
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