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Mrs. Dangle is married to Mr. Dangle, the critic of the play’s title. As the play opens, the couple are at home and he is absorbed in the latest news from London’s theatrical society. Mrs. Dangle finds his overwhelming devotion to the theatre ridiculous. She cannot believe that he has no idea what is going on in British politics, yet he knows every detail of the events on the London stage. She finds his excitable love of the stage to be childish and confounding and bemoans the fact that her
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DANGLE (reading.) "Brutus to Lord North." "Letter the second on the State of the Army"Pshaw! "To the first L--D of the A--Y.""Genuine Extract of a Letter from St. Kitt's .""Coxheath Intelligence." "It is now confidently asserted that Sir Charles Hardy." Pshaw! Nothing but about the fleet, and the nation!and I hate all politics but theatrical politics. Where's the
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