Alcestis: A Dramatic Poem

Excerpt from A Dramatic Poem a Dramatic

It is, perhaps, scarcely necessary to say that Alces tis is not in any manner intended as an imitation of the Greek drama, the lyrical passages which occur being merely ornaments, not essentially connected with the action. My aim has been to write an English, not a pseudo-greek play.

The plot being a free fantasia upon the pre historic legend, I have not been solicitous about an accurate delineation of the manners and customs of any historic period. My Thessaly is the Arcadian region of a Greece almost as purely ideal as Shake speare's Bohemia, or Forest of Arden 3 and to the sympathetic reader's imagination I trust the frank anachronism between modern sentiments and their legendary setting.

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