Excerpt from Quaint Old Stories to Read and ActMuch of the best traditional literature is essentially dramatic. Animals meet and talk, kings discourse with their subjects, rich men and poor men bring their cases before wise judges, fairies in disguise search the hearts of men by their questions, and even the pot and the kettle converse. To meet the call for dramatic material for children's use, thirty stories have been gathered from the literature of all countries, and set in dramatic form for reading and acting. They are not plays, though many of them could easily be staged. They are, as the title indicates, quaint old stories, in which so much of the action is carried on by conversation that it has needed only a retouching to make them dramatic in form as well as in spirit.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.