LES FACHEUX.

COMEDIE.

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THE BORES.

A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS.

(_THE ORIGINAL IN VERSE_.)

AUGUST 17TH, 1661.




INTRODUCTORY NOTICE.

_The Bores_ is a character-comedy; but the peculiarities taken as
the text of the play, instead of being confined to one or two of the
leading personages, are exhibited in different forms by a succession of
characters, introduced one after the other in rapid course, and
disappearing after the brief performance of their roles. We do not find
an evolution of natural situations, proceeding from the harmonious
conduct of two or three individuals, but rather a disjointed series of
tableaux--little more than a collection of monologues strung together on
a weak thread of explanatory comments, enunciated by an unwilling
listener.