The Fatal Falsehood: A Tragedy. In Five Acts

By Hannah More

This is a tragedy in 5 Acts set in nineteenth-century Britain. It is written in blank verse and is set in England. The play opens with an encounter between Earl Guildford and Bertrand his nephew who, in a soliloquy just before Guildford's entrance, has told the audience of his dislike of Guidford's son Rivers. It appears there will be trouble between these young men and Guildford's two daughters, one of whom is adopted.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Apr 25, 2021
• ISBN: 4064066188955

Hannah More

Hannah More (1745-1833) was one of the defining Christian female voices of Georgian Britain. An influential Evangelical writer, her vast literary output included essays, hymns, plays, poems, popular tracts (her Cheap Repository Tracts sold millions of copies) and a novel, while her philanthropic spirit established schools for children, woman's clubs and improved the conditions of the poor.She was a member of The Blue Stockings Society of England, and was connected with many notable figures of her era, including Edmund Burke, David Garrick, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Horace Walpole, and the abolitionist William Wilberforce, whose campaign to end the British slave trade was greatly aided by her poem Slavery.Hannah steadfastly supported piety, traditional Christian values and education - her zeal even taking on Thomas Paine and the French Revolution.As England began to grapple with its industrial and scientific revolutions, More helped prepare British society for the challenges of the 19th century by promoting Biblical values and Evangelical social reforms. She was a paragon of her age, and a beacon for Christ.

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Hannah More

The Fatal Falsehood

A Tragedy. In Five Acts

Published by Good Press, 2021

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EAN 4064066188955

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A TRAGEDY.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.

WORKS

HANNAH MORE.

VOL. II.

COUNTESS BATHURST,

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

PROLOGUE.

ACT I.

ACT II.

ACT III.

ACT IV.

ACT V.

EPILOGUE.

A TRAGEDY.

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IN FIVE ACTS.

AS IT WAS ACTED AT THE

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.

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Drawn from:

THE

WORKS

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OF

HANNAH MORE.

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VOL. II.

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LONDON

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, STRAND

1830.

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TO THE

COUNTESS BATHURST,

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THIS TRAGEDY

IS

VERY RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

AS

A SMALL TRIBUTE TO HER MANY VIRTUES,

AND

AS A GRATEFUL TESTIMONY

OF THE FRIENDSHIP WITH WHICH SHE HONOURS

HER MOST OBEDIENT

AND MOST OBLIGED

HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

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DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

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PROLOGUE.

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WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR OF THE TRAGEDY.

SPOKEN BY MR. HULL.

THE FATAL FALSEHOOD.

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ACT I.

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Scene

—An Apartment in Guildford Castle.

Enter

Bertrand

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