Note 233 — Chapter IV · THE SATIRIC GROUP
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Cf. App. B, I., No. 54 (a), p. 284. It became popular also in dramatic form, The Sultan or a Peep into the Seraglio, a Farce in two Acts, by Isaac Bickerstaffe, first acted 1775; printed, 1784, 1786, 1787. Another of Marmontel’s works,—not a tale, but a comédie-ballet,—called Zemire et Azor, formed the basis of a popular comic opera, Selima and Azor a Persian Tale, with music by Thomas Linley, Sr., London [1776]. It is a version of the story of Beauty and the Beast.