Douglas A Tragedy In 5 Acts

Author : Home Home
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ISBN 13 : 9781332587148
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Douglas written by Home Home and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Douglas: A Tragedy in Five Acts The tragedy of Douglas, is one of the most chaste and beautiful plays, known to the English Stage, whether we look at the language, the poetry, or the plot, we find in all much to admire, and nothing to condemn - yet its author, the Rev. Dr. Home, was publicly tried by the Presbyterian Synod of the Kirk of Scotland, and sentenced to be suspended from the ministry of the gospel for the high crime and misdemeanor of having written a profane Stage Play. His stern accusers, like the Puritans of old, could find no mercy for so great an error, but it puzzled their wise brains to find a passage in the play to found their charge upon - was it immoral? quite the contrary! The moral was so sound and good that it courted investigation, and foiled even bigotry, showing the consequence of disobedience to parental authority in so strong a light, that a life of spotless purity, thereafter, could not avert the fatal effects of the indiscretion of a concealed marriage, and the high worth and courage of the offspring, not of crime, but of affection, render his undeserved fate the theme of a universal commiseration, while a feeling of hatred removes all pity from Lord Randolph for his agency in it, even with the excuse of jealousy, and the unabashed villainy of Glenalvon, who urged him on, from his own base ends, to murder the preserver of his life as the supposed destroyer of his honor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.