This showed that the people liked it.
It was a curious sort of a play.

In the manner of costumes and scenery it was fine and showy enough; but there was not much action.

That is to say, there was not much really done, it was only talked about; and always violently.

It was what one might call a narrative play.

Everybody had a narrative and a grievance, and none were reasonable about it, but all in an offensive and ungovernable state.