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  2. Quoted by Gilbert Seldes in his introduction to Aristophanes, Lysistrata. New York : The Limited Editions Club, 1934, p.14.
    A similar view is expressed by an anonymous reviewer of a London Little Theatre production of Lysistrata who praised the adapter "[who] has not retained any of the licentiousness of Aristophanes's text ... [yet] keeps in view the sexual basis of the comedy." However, the praise is immediately diluted by the observation that "if the truth may be told, the piece as modified proves a rather tame and school-girlish affair." Athenaeum, no. 4329 (Oct. 15, 1910), p. 465-66.
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    Evremond was a contemporary of Wilmot, though some thirty years his senior. He arrived in England in the early 1660's from his native France after incurring the displeasure of the king. The similarity between Saint-Evremond and Wilmot is suggested by Christopher Pitt (quoted in the D.N.B.) who said of him:

      Old Évremond, renowned for wit and dirt
      Would change his living oftener than his shirt;
      Roar with the rakes of state a month; ...

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