1886
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| [Preface] | ||
| [Dramatis Personæ] | ||
| Act I | [Scene 1] | Bosphorus. The King's palace. |
| [Scene 2] | Outside the palace. | |
| Act II | [Scene 1] | Lamachus' palace, Cherson. |
| [Scene 2] | Outside the palace of Lamachus. | |
| [Scene 3] | A street in Cherson. | |
| [Scene 4] | The garden without the banqueting-room. | |
| Act III | [Scene 1] | Cherson, two years after. The palace of Lamachus. |
| [Scene 2] | The same. | |
| [Scene 3] | A room in the palace. | |
| [Scene 4] | Irene's prison. | |
| [Scene 5] | Outside the palace. | |
| Act IV | [Scene 1] | Cherson. Irene's prison. |
| [Scene 2] | Room in Lamachus's palace. | |
| [Scene 3] | The council chamber of the Senate of Cherson. | |
| Act V | [Scene 1] | Lamachus's palace. |
| [Scene 2] | The banquet hall. | |
| [Scene 3] | Outside the banquet hall. | |
| [Scene 4] | The Senate-chamber. | |
| [Notices of the press] | ||
[PREFACE.]
The following Drama was written with a view to Stage representation, and it is therefore rather as an Acting Play than as a Dramatic Poem that it should be judged by its readers.
It follows as closely as possible the striking story recorded by Constantine Porphyrogenitus in his work, "De Administratione Imperii." Nor has the writer had occasion (except in the death of the heroine) to modify the powerful historical situations and incidents to which it is right to say his attention was first directed by his friend the well-known scholar and critic, Mr. W. Watkiss Lloyd.
The date of the story is circa 970 a.d.