Excerpt from The Persian Heroine: A Tragedy
The object of this preliminary address is to inform the Reader of the difference in this Edition of the Tragedy of The Persian Heroine compared with the preceding Editions; and of the new Variations now introduced. Instead of Five Acts it is here printed in Three Acts, in order to allow a representation of it in either of those two modes, as occasion may demand, or different theatres require. I shall prove in the sequel of this Preface with what facility that may be done by this printed edition, so as to accommodate it to the other form of Five Acts without reprinting it again; and thus the advantage, flowing from the present Variations, will equally attach to both respective forms, if the following instructions are obeyed. The first difference consists in the division of the Choral Song. This was inserted originally towards the end of the Second Act, and then consisted of sixty verses in twenty stanzas, which included three lines of lyrick measure.
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