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Excerpt from Othello-Travestie: In Three Acts

The following pages were written, currente calamo, principally to occupy a few hours, when leisure from matters of a more serious nature, enabled the Author to indulge in a relaxation of mind, and to abstract himself from the consideration of business incessant and wearisome. It gratified a few friends, and, trusting that it may afford a few minutes' amusement to any lover of the Drama, the author humbly submits it to the perusal of the public. He will not apologize to the theatrical world for travestizing this tragedy. There is a precedent for his attempt, and indeed the arguments advanced in apology for publishing Hamlet-Travestie are sufficiently capable of refuting any objection which may be started by cavillers on this head. There lives not one who entertains a stronger feeling of veneration for Shakspeare than they humble individual who pens these lines; if it were needed, however, to adduce further excuses for this outrage on the feelings of black-letter literati, many can be advanced from a late number of The Reflector from the pen of a writer of sterling talent, and abilities, as a critic, unrivalled.

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