Jerome takes the stock characters of Victorian melodrama one by one and solemnly describes their curious habits: the hero who never works and longs to be mistaken for a murderer, the villain, the heroine, the comic man, the lawyer, the adventuress, the servant-girl, the stage child, the comic lovers and the peasants.
A short, very funny send-up of theatrical cliché by the author of Three Men in a Boat. Download the free EPUB.