ABSTRACT
Home's adaptation is considered in the Introduction to this volume. Excerpts from (a) Home's Preface, Prologue, and Ferdinand's last moments from the published version of his play, 1850; (b) 'The Times', London, 21 November 1850, p. 8; (c) the 'Athenaeum', 23 November 1850, pp. 1225-6; (d) the 'Spectator', 23 November 1850, p. 1113; (e) George Henry Lewes's review in the 'Leader', 30 November 1850, reprinted in his 'Dramatic Essays', ed. William Archer and Robert Lowe (1896), pp. 118-22. Lewes (1817-78), journalist, philosophical essayist, and dramatic critic, antedates the approach of his own later editor, William Archer.
