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Excerpt from Edgar: Or Caledonian Feuds, a Tragedy, Now Performing With Universal Applause, at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden During the first part of my residence in Wales, whither I retired at the early age of eighteen, Mrs. Radcliffe's entertaining novel, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, came into my hands. The ingenuity of the plot, and variety of interesting situations, immediately suggested the idea, that an excellent drama might be erected on such a basis. Having mentioned my opinion to some friends, they not only coincided in it, but entreated me to become the architect. I started at the proposal. - A stranger to the stage and all its trickery, unpractised in poetry, and unskilled in literary composition, innumerable difficulties presented themselves to my imagination. However, I was at length persuaded to brave them all, and the first two lines of blank verse I ever wrote, were the two first in the tragedy of Edgar. In the progress of my labors I found it necessary to deviate considerably from the novel, to omit some characters, and create others, among the latter of which that of the Ha Ron is the most conspicuous. Alleyn (whom I have called Edgar) bore so strong a resemblance to Mr. Homes Douglas, that I was obliged to have the latter continually before me as a beacon, to avoid splitting on the rock Q$plagiarism, The denouement is also very different from the original. At length I experienced that delectable satisfaction, known only to authors, of writing the word Finis. 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.