Angels & Ministers

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Angels & Ministers, by Laurence HousmanThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Angels & MinistersAuthor: Laurence HousmanRelease Date: February 10, 2004 [EBook #11020]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANGELS & MINISTERS ***Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Keren Vergon, Charles M. Bidwell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.ANGELS AND MINISTERSAND OTHER VICTORIAN PLAYSbyLAURENCE HOUSMANAngels and Ministers AND Possession WERE FIRSTIntroductionThe Victorian era has ceased to be a thing of yesterday; it has become history; and the fixed look of age, no longercontemporary in character, which now grades the period, grades also the once living material which went to its making.With this period of history those who were once participants in its life can deal more intimately and with moreverisimilitude than can those whose literary outlook comes later. We can write of it as no sequent generation will findpossible; for we are bone of its bone and flesh of its flesh; and when we go, something goes with us which will require forits reconstruction, not the natural piety of a returned native, such as I claim to be, but the cold, calculating art of literaryexcursionists whose domicile is ...