An excerpt from the script of actor-manager Henry Irving's adaptation of Goethe's Faust (with Irving in the role of Mephistopheles) which ran for many years at the Lyceum Theatre in Victorian London (where Bram Stoker was house manager).

It seems very likely this excerpt might have given some ideas to another theater impresario, one who also happened to be a children's book author, namely a certain L. Frank Baum...
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