Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1910 — Lamb Hissed His Own Farce. [ARTICLE]

Lamb Hissed His Own Farce.

Lamb’s unfortunate farce, “Mr. BL* has one of the shortest theatrical titles on record, and it could not possibly have had a shorter theatrical life, since it was performed only once. Lamb, as everybody knows, “hissed and hooted as loudly as any of his neighbors.” Writing to Wordsworth the following day he Slid: “A hundred hisses —(damn the word, I write it like kisses —how different!) —a hundred hisses ’outweigh a thousand claps. The former come more directly from the; heart. Well, it’s withdrawn and there is an end.” But it is to be observe that he did not curse his audience, as your modern playwright would have done, for Lamb happened to be a sound and sane critic of his own work.