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Richelieu ; Or The Conspiracy

A Play In Five Acts

Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton (1803-1873)

RICHELIEU;

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TO THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE, K. G., &c. &c.

PREFACE TO RICHELIEU.

PERSONS OF THE DRAMA, AS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRE-ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1839.

NOTE.

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NOTE.

The length of the Play necessarily requires curtailments on the Stage—the principal of which are specified (as they occur) in marginal notes. Many of the passages thus omitted, however immaterial to the audience, must obviously be such as the reader would be least inclined to dispense with—viz., those which, without being absolutely essential to the business of the Stage, contain either the subtler strokes of character, or the more poetical embellishments of description.