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Excerpt from Charles the First: An Historical Tragedy in Five Acts
As the publication of this Tragedy will precede the performance, I might perhaps be accounted rash and presumptuous, were I to fore-run the judg ment of the Town on the merits of my actors. Strongly as I am tempted to venture one prediction, I refrain. But I cannot abstain from thanking every individual concerned in the piece for the zeal and kindness which have rendered the labour of rehearsal a pleasure; and my thanks are more especially due to Mr. Abbott, as Manager, and to his very intelligent Stage Manager, Mr. Broad, for the attention and research which they have bestowed on the Costume and the Scenery, and on every detail, however minute, which could add to historical accuracy in the getting up of the Play. It is a novelty now-a-days to find the Lessee of a Theatre expending money and time on a production of this class; and 1 cannot help feeling, whatever may be the fate of my share of the work, that Mr. Abbott's spirit and enterprize deserve to succeed.
There is yet another person who must accept my heartfelt thanks. It is a privilege to' owe obligation to such a man as Mr. Serle; and to him I am indebted, not merely for the graceful compliment of writing and speaking the Prologue, and for the most essential services in the production of the Play, but for the prompt and ready kindness, the hearty goodwill, the generous sympathy in the anxieties, not of a rival, but of a sister Dramatist which have more than doubled the obligation. I shall never be able to repay his goodness, but I am happy in the opportunity of proclaiming my gratitude to one not less eminent for his private qualities, than for a rare combination of genius and taste.
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