ABSTRACT
Lord Rochester plainly saw what parts of the original ought to be omitted, and has very properly ended his play with the death of Valentinian-but he has not been fortunate in his additions, his language being very inferiour to Fletcher’s. Nothing could be more a-propos than the revival of this Tragedy at this time;1 as no Court Chaplain ever carried the doctrine of Passive obedience and Non-resistance to greater lengths than Fletcher does in the Maid’s Tragedy-The Loyal Subject-Rollo, and this play-his father, who was Bishop of London, had probably instilled good principles into him at an early age-Lord Rochester has added some similar sentiments of his own.
