While, on moral grounds, we may inveigh against the courtesan, when we meet her in everyday life, the fact remains that for the stage there is no character in greater demand by "star" actresses and "romantic" playwrights. They seem to find a peculiar interest in a woman who has "lived"-no matter how. If, in ransacking history, they are lucky enough to discover a courtesan who can be billed as a "king's favorite," they appear to smack their lips exultantly.
One is almost inclined to believe that dead-and-gone kings must have chosen "favorites" merely for the sake of to-day's stage.
As soon as the playwright has excavated a courtesan, he begins to think of the best way of whitewashing her. For she must be offered up as more sinned against than sinning.
Of course. The playwright wastes his substance thinking up excuses for her. He is quite willing-nay, anxious-that she shall go wrong, but he prefers that she shall be driven to it by untoward circumstances.
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