The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie, complete in one volume

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THE DRAMATIC AND POETICAL WORKS OF JOANNA BAILLIE, London t Spottiswoodes and Siia», New street-Square. AUD PO E "i,: ' VIL N D 0 TSf : ROW. the DRAMATIC AND POETICAL WORKS OF JOANNA BAILLIE complete in one volume LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. 1851. PREFACE, All the Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie are now collected together, and presented to the Public, with many corrections, and a few additions, by herself. They are in this Volume arranged in three divisions. The first contains the Plays on the Passions, from which the reputation of the Author primarily and chiefly arose ; in which is embodied the design she formed, at the commencement of her career, of writing a Tragedy and Comedy on each of the stronger passions of the mind. The second division embraces, under the head " Miscellaneous Plays," all her dramatic works not comprehended in that design.

The third includes all her poetical compositions, not dramatic, nor connected with the Plays. In this division appears a poem entitled Ahalya Baee, recently printed for private circulation ; and amongst the Fugitive Verses have been introduced some short poems never before published. CONTENTS. PLAYS ON THE PASSIONS. Tage Page Introductory Discourse -----] Orra : a Tragedy ...... 235 Basil : a Tragedy - - - - - - 18 The Dream : a Tragedy, in Trose - - - 2G0 The Trial : a Comedy - - - - - 49 The Siege : a Comedy - 277 De Monfort: a Tragedy - - - - 76 The Beacon ; a Serious Musical Drama - - 300 Thb Election : a Comedy - 106 Romiero: a Tragedy - - - - - 312 Ethwald : a Tragedy, Part I. - - - - 134 The Alienated M_anor : a Comedy ... 335 , Part II. - - - - 167 Henriquez: a Tragedy - - - -, - 3G1 The Second Marriage : a Comedy ... 198 MISCELLANEOUS PLAYS.

Ravner: a Tragedy - - - - - 391 The Phantom: a Musical Drama - - - 570 Enthusiasm : a Comedy ----- 591 The Country Inn : a Comedy - 419 Constantine Paleologus ; or, the Last of the Cæsars : a Tragedy ----- 446 Witchcrapt: a Tragedy, in Prose - 613 The Homicide : a Tragedy in Prose, with occasional Passages in Verse ----., 643 The Family Legend: a Tragedy ... 479 The Martyr: a Drama ----- 503 The Bride : a Drama - 665 The Separation: a Tragedy - - - - 530 The Match : a Comedy - 084 The Stripling : a Tragedy, in Prose ... 551 MISCELLANEOUS POETRY. METRICAL LEGENDS Preface - 705 Lord John of the East : a Ballad- - - - 761 A Metrical Legend of William Wallace - - - 710 Malcolm's He> : a Tale of Wonder - 763 The Legend of Christopher Columbus - - - 731 The Elden Tree: an ancient Ballad . - - 765 The Legend of Lady Griseld Baillie - - - 748 The Ghost of Fadon 707 FUGITIVE VERSES.