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as this kind of opera is called, because it presents strange points of interest. The persistent way in which no single line from _The Comedy of Errors_ was set to music for this production is only equalled by the manner in which Purcell did not set a line of Shakespeare in his _Fairy {13} Queen_. Whenever modern critics point out the faults in our occasional Shakespearian productions, one can always say,
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Remember 1819, the year of the first performance of this atrocity.