POSTSCRIPT TO THE ELEVENTH EDITION.
When any dramatic piece takes—as the phrase is—with the Public, it will usually be represented again and again with still-continued applause; and sometimes imitations of it will be produced; so that the same drama in substance will, with occasional slight variations in the plot, and changes of names, long keep possession of the stage.
Something like this has taken place with respect to that curious tragi-comedy—the scene of it laid in France—which has engaged the attention of the British public for about sixty years; during which it has been "exhibited to crowded houses"—viz., coffee-houses, reading-rooms, &c., with unabated interest.
The outline of this drama, or series of dramas, may be thus sketched:
A. A King or other Sovereign.
B. His Queen.
C. The Heir apparent.
D. E. F. His Ministers.