A GEM OF AMERICAN CRITICISM.
It was quite by accident what we stumbled against the following gem, which we picked up in the pages of the Mobile Register. In describing a play, called Cloud and Sunshine, it says-
“The curiosity of the audience is kept upon the rack of expectation until the very omega of the drama.”
We wonder who would be donkey enough to go to the theatre to be kept on the rack all the evening? We don’t know what the ‘rack of expectation’ may be, unless it is one that a hungry steed is looking up to impatiently for his customary allowance of hay, that has been abstracted by a dishonest ostler. It sounds like some instrument of torture, worthy of the days of the Inquisition. Perhaps the rack is brought in purposely to keep the attention of the audience on the stretch throughout the play, and so to increase its painful interest? The whole thing is a cruel of mystery to us, down to the “very omega of the drama.” If the Mobile Register is generally full of such gems, we should like to subscribe to it.
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