Word: serio
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Barry '97, the authors of last year's play. The librettist has furnished a bright vigorous book. The plot has the merit of being substantial and connected, calling for plenty of lively situations and humorous complications, and giving the characters a wide range of acting, from serio-comic to pure burlesque, without departing from the central interest of the opera. Almost all the songs, dances, and bits of burlesque are closely allied to the development of the plot, which by the end of the first act becomes hopelessly intricate and tangled, only to unwind itself during the action...
...cleverness is misapplied. The first two paragraphs and the last seem to be written in a serious mood and contain so much truth in such a small space that almost every sentence amounts to a truism. The rest of the essay is written in a sort of flippant, serio-comic vein, which is out of place. Honor is too grave a subject to be flippantly treated...