The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poems, Plays, Essays, Lectures, Autobiography & Personal Letters (Illustrated). Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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       PREFACE OF THE TRANSLATOR TO THE FIRST EDITION

       DRAMATIS PERSONAE

       ACT I

       SCENE I

       SCENE II

       SCENE III

       SCENE IV

       SCENE V

       SCENE VI

       SCENE VII

       SCENE VIII

       SCENE IX

       SCENE X

       SCENE XI

       SCENE XII

       ACT II

       SCENE I

       SCENE II

       SCENE III

       SCENE IV

       SCENE V

       SCENE VI

       SCENE VII

       SCENE VIII

       SCENE IX

       SCENE X

       SCENE XI

       ACT III

       SCENE I

       SCENE II

       SCENE III

       SCENE IV

       SCENE V

       SCENE VI

       SCENE VII

       SCENE VIII

       SCENE IX

       ACT IV

       SCENE I

       SCENE II

       SCENE III

       SCENE IV

       SCENE V

       SCENE VI

       ACT V

       SCENE I

       SCENE II

       SCENE III

       SCENE IV

       SCENE V

       SCENE VI

       SCENE VII

       SCENE IX

       SCENE X

      PREFACE OF THE TRANSLATOR TO THE FIRST EDITION

       Table of Contents

      The two Dramas, PICCOLOMINI, or the first part of WALLENSTEIN, and WALLENSTEIN, are introduced in the original manuscript by a Prelude in one Act, entitled WALLENSTEIN’S

      CAMP. This is written in rhyme, and in nine-syllable verse, in

       the same lilting metre (if that expression may be permitted) 5

       with the second Eclogue of Spenser’s Shepherd’s Calendar.

      This Prelude possesses a sort of broad humour, and is not

       deficient in character; but to have translated it into prose, or

       into any other metre than that of the original, would have

       given a false notion both of its style and purport; to have 10

       translated