Excerpt from Twelve Great Actresses There may be a place, therefore, for the struggles, the trials, and the successes, of these twelve great actors, whose la bours dignified either Tragedy or Comedy. They were all philanthropists: while they fretted their hour upon the boards they gave royal pleasure to the public, and carried it into an enchanted region, where the hum drum of every-day existence was forgotten. 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.