Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Paul and Virginia, or the Runaway Slave: A Play in Three Acts
The accompanying dramatization of the well known story of Paul and Virginia is presented to the notice of theat rical managers in the belief that it is especially fitted to attract public attention at the present moment. As in the original s'tory?fimominmppw'rmér-given to the negroes, two principal parts and several minor ones being in themand much of the interest of the plot turns upon the gratitude of a fugitive slave to the hero and heroine of the play. The simplicity of language and sentiment, which is the charm of the original, has been carefully preserved, while the tableaux ending each act, and particularly the last, will be found to afford Opportunity for considerable scenic effects.
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