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    The Battle of Hastings, a Tragedy
    The Battle of Hastings, a Tragedy
    The Battle of Hastings, a Tragedy
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    The Battle of Hastings, a Tragedy

    By Richard Cumberland

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    The Battle of Hastings, a Tragedy is a classic play published at the end of the 18th century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781531281861
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      The Battle of Hastings, a Tragedy - Richard Cumberland

      THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS, A TRAGEDY

      ..................

      Richard Cumberland

      LACONIA PUBLISHERS

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      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by Richard Cumberland

      Interior design by Pronoun

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Dramatis Personae.

      PROLOGUE.

      EPILOGUE.

      ACT I. SCENE I.

      ACT II. SCENE I.

      ACT III. SCENE I.

      ACT IV. SCENE I.

      ACT V.

      THE

      BATTLE of HASTINGS

      A

      TRAGEDY.

      By RICHARD CUMBERLAND, Esq;

      AS IT IS ACTED AT THE

      THEATRE-ROYAL

      IN

      DRURY-LANE.

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

      ..................

      MEN.

      HAROLD, King of England,Mr. Bensley.

      EDGAR ATHELING,Mr. Henderson.

      Earl EDWIN,Mr. Palmer.

      Earl WALTHEOF,Mr. Brereton.

      Earl of MERCIA, Brother to Harold,Mr. Norris.

      Earl of NORTHUMBERLAND,Mr. Aickin.

      SIFFRIC,Mr. Farren.

      REGINALD,Mr. Chaplin.

      RAYMOND,Mr. Hurst.

      DUNCAN, a Scottish Seer,Mr. Chambers.

      WOMEN.

      MATILDA, Daughter to Harold,Miss Younge.

      EDWINA,Mrs. Yates.

      SABINA,Mrs. Colles.

      Attendants on Matilda, Guards, Foresters, Wardens, and various Attendants.

      PROLOGUE.

      ..................

      Spoken by Mr. HENDERSON.

      To holy land in superstition’s day,

      When bare foot pilgrims trode their weary way,

      By mother church’s unremitting law

      Scourg’d into grace, with shoulders red and raw;

      Kneeling demure before the sacred shrine,

      On the hard flint they begg’d the boon divine;

      Pardon for what offending flesh had done,

      And pity for the long long course they’d run,

      Fines, pains and penalties, securely past,

      Slow pac’d forgiveness met their prayer at last,

      Full absolution from conceeding Rome,

      Cancell’d all sin, past, present and to come.

      Your Poet thus prophanely led aside

      To range o’er Tragic land without a guide,

      To pick perhaps, with no invidious aim,

      A few cast fallings from the tree of fame.

      Damn’d, tho’ untried, by the despotic rule

      Of the stern Doctors in detraction’s school;

      Lash’d down each column of a public page,

      And driv’n o’er burning ploughshares to the stage,

      Be rhim’d, be ridicul’d with doggrel wit,

      Sues out a pardon from his Pope—the Pit.

      Pensive he stands in penitential weeds,

      With a huge rosary of untold beads;

      Sentenc’d for past offences to rehearse,

      Ave Apollo’s to the God of verse;

      And sure there’s no one but an Author knows

      The Penance, which an Author undergoes.

      If then your worships a few stripes award

      Let not your beadles lay them on too hard;

      For in the world there’s not a thing so thin,

      So full of feeling, as your Poet’s skin:

      What if, perchance, he snatch’d a playful kiss

      From that free hearted romp the Comic Miss;

      That frolick’s past, he’s turn’d to years of grace,

      And a young sinner now supplies his place.

      Sure you’ll not grudge a little sober chat

      With this demure old tabby Tragic cat;

      No charge lies here of conversation crim

      He hopes you’ll think her fame, no worse for him.

      EPILOGUE.

      ..................

      Spoken by Miss YOUNGE.

      From ancient Thespis to the present age

      The world hath oft been term’d a public stage,

      A thread-bare metaphor, which in its time

      Hath patch’d much prose and heel-piec’d many a rhime;

      Ev’n the grave pulpit sometimes deigns to use

      The emphatic terms of the proscribed Muse,

      Calls birth our entry, death our exit calls,

      And at life’s close exclaims—the curtain falls;

      And so concludes upon the drama’s plan

      That fretting, strutting, short-hour actor, man.

      Are we all actors then?—yes, all from Adam,

      And actresses?—I apprehend so Madam.

      Some fill their cast with grace, others with none,

      Some are shov’d off the stage, and some shov’d on;

      Some good, some bad, still we all act a part,

      Whilst we disguise the language of the heart;

      Nature’s plain taste provides a simple treat,

      But art, the Cook, steps in and mars the meat;

      The comic blade makes ridicule his test,

      And on his tomb proclaims that life’s a jest,

      The swaggering braggart, in true tragic cast,

      Bellows blank verse and daggers to the last;

      Whilst clubs of neutral petit-maitres boast

      A kind of opera company at most,

      Whose dress, air, action, all is imitation,

      A poor, insipid, servile, French translation;

      Whose tame dull scene glides uniform along,

      In comi—farei—pastoral—sing—song—

      ‘Till all awaken’d by the rattling die

      Club wits, and make—a modern tragedy;

      A tragedy alas! good friends, look round,

      What have we left to tread but tragic

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