Excerpt from Esther and Berenice Two Plays I have been asked to write a few words to explain why these adaptations of Racine were made. They were made for the use of a little company of amateur players who, wished to try their art in verse plays, yet found that of the many fine poetical plays in the En glish language, not many suited their needs. The Elizabethan poetical play needs a large cast and a fairly large stage. The Restora tion poetical play is of an old fashion. The modern poetical play is usually not enough of the stage nor of the people to hold the audience to which these players perform. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.