THE LONDON THEATRE. A COLLECTION OF THE Most celebrated Bramatic Pieces. CORRECTLY GIVEN, FROM COPIES USED IN THE THEATRES, THE MOURNING BRIDE. A Tragedy. BY WILLIAM CONGREVE. CORRECTLY GIVEN, FROM COPIES USED IN THE THEATRES, BY THOMAS DIBDIN, Author of several Dramatic Pieces: and Printed at the Chiswick Press, FOR WHITTINGHAM AND ARLISS, PATERNOSTER THE MOURNING BRIDE, FIRST acted at Lincoln's-inn Fields Theatre in 1697, is the only tragedy produced by Mr. Congreve; and, though the most successful of his works, has been deemed "inferior to the very worst" of his other dramatic essays. The speech of Almeria, however, in the second act, beginning "No, all is hush'd," &c. has been selected by Dr. Johnson, as "the most poetical paragraph in the whole mass of English poetry." This tragedy is still considered an attractive stock play. |