Love and Hate, or the Court of Charles I

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Excerpt from Love and Hate, or the Court of Charles I: An Historical Drama, in Four ActsKing Charles I. His crown, and afterwards his life, are but used secondarily, to further the development of the plot, and if, in picturing the ¿ight of the Court from Whitehall, I have departed in some measure, in the minor incidents, from the historical description - though not in such a ¿agrant manner as to leave the absurdity exposed, even to a superficial observer I have found it necessary so to do, both for dramatic effect, and the fur therance of the story. Concerning the Secret Society, introduced in the third act, it will su¿ice to say, that such a tribunal, hidden from the vulgar eye, actually existed in England at that period, bearing a close resem blance, in a romantic point of view, to the Vehm gericht of Westphalia. It is believed by some, that Cromwell was an adherent of this Tribunal, and that the germs of that rebellion which later desolated England, first arose among its members. However, be that as it may, a society of that nature suggested itself to me, as the most dramatic means an unprincipled woman could employ to compass the destruction of her rival, and, finding that such a body existed, not only in the nusub stantial realms of imagination, but also in the records of reality, I determined to introduce it, as novel on the stage.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.