afterpiece

First used to supplement or preface a short three-act play so as to eke out a full evening's entertainment, the little play was known as either an "afterpiece" or a

Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page

This was the strategic afterpiece of a country that had, in the 210 years from its founding in 1783 to the fall of the Berlin Wall, plotted and achieved a vertical and vertiginous rise from obscurity to global preeminence without the least precedent or parallel in the history of the world.

Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy Movement Conrad Black 2011

That this is so lends particular irony to the observations and predictions made by the reviewer for the Mirror of the Stage; or, New Dramatic Censor, who wrote in August 1823 that this drama would perhaps have done very well as an afterpiece; but there is not sufficient interest for

Introduction 2008

The next night he came in late, and stayed very quietly for the afterpiece, and on the third and last night of his stay in London — why, Taglioni was going to dance at the Opera, — Taglioni! and there was to be Don Giovanni, which he admired of all things in the world: so

The History of Pendennis 2006

Thus it befel that Charles Jenkin, coming too late for the epic of the French wars, played a small part in the dreary and disgraceful afterpiece of St. Helena.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

It was migration of peoples, the last advance of Asiatic races towards Europe, followed only by the fruitless attempts of those under Attila, Zenghis Khan, and Timur, and as a comic afterpiece, by the gipsies, — it was this movement which swept away the humanity of the ancients.

Religion 2004

“An afterpiece instead of a comedy,” said Mr. Bertram.

Mansfield Park 2004

The afterpiece, "The Lime Kiln Club," was quite a pretentious affair for

Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

Would you learn what men gain by admitting a member of the fair sex into their conspiracies? read the tragedy of "Venice Preserved"; and, by way of afterpiece, this little chapter.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Various

There is only one comedy, or at most two, among the Sagas -- the story of the Confederates (_Bandamanna Saga_) with an afterpiece, the short story of Alecap (_Olkofra Þáttr_).

Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature W. P. Ker