Flavorwire feature excerpts from How Beautiful They Were by Boston Teran

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The scene is London, the theatre district, the taverns and boarding houses where the beggarly of entertainment repose. The year is 1836. It is the era before birth of the greatest theatres and the rise of spectacles. An actor not quite twenty by the name of John James Beaufort is garnering heady reviews as a talent to be reckoned with. Be it drama or comedy, he performs either with equal dexterity. He can be dashing and handsome, or unassuming and inward. He slips from playing the fool to a dangerous adversary in the space of a throwaway line.

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