The Kings Fool Or The Old Mans Curse

Author : J. G. Millingen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331170921
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The King's Fool; Or the Old Man's Curse written by J. G. Millingen and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The King's Fool; Or the Old Man's Curse: An Historic Play, in Three Acts The following piece is founded on the same traditional subject as Le Roi s'amuse of Victor Hugo. The chief incidents have been retained, but the plot and characters differ materially. Urged by that anti-regal mania which distinguishes the republic of letters of our ingenious neighbours, the French author represented Francis I. as a base and profligate prince. I have endeavoured to delineate him in the colouring transmitted by his chroniclers; - a lively, amiable monarch, launched, it is true, on the giddy vortex of a depraved court, yet still high-minded and chivalric in his disposition, and according to the acceptation of the word honour, then, and unfortunately now in high life, honourable in illicit pursuits when condescending to ennoble plebeian blood. In the Parisian piece, with heartless levity, he ruins the child of his miserable jester, while she is represented an infatuated being, glorying in her royal degradation, and ready to lay down her life to save that of her despoiler, even when endangered in a house of ill-fame, and faithless in the arms of a prostitute, exclaiming - "Puisqu'il ne m'aime plus, je n'ai plus qu'a mourir, Eh bien! mourons pour lui." Still the animal strength of the pangs of death assail her, and she says, after hearing the assassin whetting his knife on a scythe, - "Ciel! il va me faire bien du mal!!" Hugo's Blanche in short, is a deluded silly girl, creating neither pity nor esteem, while the public has appeared to take a warm interest in the miseries of my virtuous but ill-fated heroine. 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.