A DRAMA
In Four Acts
By
GILBERT MURRAY
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
MDCCCC
Prefatory Note
Dramatis Personæ
The First Act
The Second Act
The Third Act
The Fourth Act
This play was written at Viareggio in 1893, and passed an eventfulthough not unchequered existence for six years before it was produced byMrs. Patrick Campbell at the Princess of Wales' Theatre, Kennington, onJune 19, 1899. The version here published is not exactly that which wasacted, though it is much nearer to the acted version than to theoriginal play as it stood before I had the benefit of Mrs. Campbell'svivid and helpful criticism.
I may remark here that the Play never had the ghost of a glimmer of aconscious political allusion in it; nor did it occur to me, when I putmy Napoleonic hero in the surroundings which seemed to give most scopeto his autocratic and unscrupulous genius, that any sane person wouldsuppose that I wished to attack the Indian Civil Service. The plays onmy bookshelves teem with villains of the most diverse professions, from[Pg vi]kings and clergymen—chiefly, I must confess, Roman Catholics orDissenters—to lawyers and journalists. I do not think I should chafe atthe appearance of a villanous Professor of Greek. And on the whole Icannot help hoping that those of my critics and friends who adopted ahigh patriotic tone against this play, will upon reflection be inclinedto agree that their imperial sensitiveness was a little overstrained.
GILBERT MURRAY.
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