A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. 6 : Originally Published by Robert Dodsley in the Year 1744 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. 6: Originally Published by Robert Dodsley in the Year 1744

Sleidan'e Vingt - nenf Livres d'histoire (liv. Xx'i. Edit. Geneva, Spiera was an Italian lawyer, who abandoned the Protestant for the Roman Catholic faith, and in remorse and despair committed suicide about thirty years anterior to the datewhcn The Conflict of Conscience came from the press. How long this event had occurred before Nathaniel Woodes wrote his drama upon the story, we have no means of knowing; but the object of the author unquestionably was to for ward and fix the Reformation, and we may conclude, perhaps, that an incident of the kind would not he brought uponthestageuntilsomeyearsaftereli zabeth had been seated on the throne, and until what was called the new faith was firmly settled in the belief, and in the afl'eotiona, of the great majority of the nation. We apprehend, therefore, that The Conflict of Conscience was not written until about 1570.

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