ABSTRACT
French music halls have already been mentioned in ‘Tavern of the Dead’. The British music hall was famous for its monologues with titles such as The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God, The Lion and Albert and The Shooting of Dan McGrew. Most of the monologues were intended to keep the listener in suspense until the last stanza and the one given below, called The Sufferer (written by L E Baggaley and Edwin John in 1934) is no exception. Others, such as The Madman’s Will, which appears later, have a more melancholy aspect to them, reflecting the average working man’s view of life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Sufferer and The Madman’s Will are two of only a few which relate to the medical profession.
