Excerpt from The Faithful Shepherdess: A Play But the charm of The Faithful Shepherdess is idyllic and lyric rather than dramatic. As a picture of country life, and in the raptures of lyric feeling which thrill through the play, it remains unsurpassed by anything in dramatic literature out side of Shakspere.

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