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    The Lady of Lyons; Or, Love and Pride
    The Lady of Lyons; Or, Love and Pride
    The Lady of Lyons; Or, Love and Pride
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    The Lady of Lyons; Or, Love and Pride

    By Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

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    "The Lady of Lyons; Or, Love and Pride" by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
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    Release dateDec 9, 2019
    ISBN4064066240370
    The Lady of Lyons; Or, Love and Pride

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      The Lady of Lyons; Or, Love and Pride - Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

      Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton

      The Lady of Lyons; Or, Love and Pride

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066240370

      Table of Contents

      PREFACE.

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

      THE LADY OF LYONS;

      or,

      LOVE AND PRIDE.

      ACT I.—SCENE I.

      ACT II.—SCENE I.

      ACT III.—SCENE I.

      ACT IV.—SCENE I.

      ACT V.

      Two years and a half from the date of Act IV.

      PREFACE.

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      An indistinct recollection of the very pretty little tale, called The Bellows-Mender, suggested the plot of this Drama. The incidents are, however, greatly altered from those in the tale, and the characters entirely re-cast.

      Having long had a wish to illustrate certain periods of the French history, so, in the selection of the date in which the scenes of this play are laid, I saw that the era of the Republic was that in which the incidents were rendered most probable, in which the probationary career of the hero could well be made sufficiently rapid for dramatic effect, and in which the character of the time itself was depicted by the agencies necessary to the conduct of the narrative. For during the early years of the first and most brilliant successes of the French Republic, in the general ferment of society, and the brief equalization of ranks, Claude’s high-placed love; his ardent feelings, his unsettled principles (the struggle between which makes the passion of this drama), his ambition, and his career, were phenomena that characterized the age, and in which the spirit of the nation went along with the extravagance of the individual.

      The play itself was composed with a twofold object. In the first place, sympathizing with the enterprise of Mr. Macready, as Manager of Covent Garden, and believing that many of the higher interests of the Drama were involved in the success or failure of an enterprise equally hazardous and disinterested, I felt, if I may so presume to express myself, something of the Brotherhood of Art; and it was only for Mr. Macready to think it possible that I might serve him in order to induce me to make the attempt.

      Secondly, in that attempt I was mainly anxious to see whether or not, after the comparative failure on the stage of The Duchess de la Valliere, certain critics had truly declared that it was not in my power to attain the art of dramatic construction and theatrical effect. I felt, indeed, that it was in this that a writer, accustomed to the narrative class of composition, would have the most both to learn and unlearn. Accordingly, it was to the development of the plot and the arrangement of the incidents that I directed my chief attention;—and I sought to throw whatever belongs to poetry less into the diction and the felicity of words than into the construction of the story, the creation of the characters, and the spirit of the pervading sentiment.

      The authorship of the play was neither avowed nor suspected until the play had established itself in public favor. The announcement of my name was the signal for attacks, chiefly political, to which it is now needless to refer. When a work has outlived for some time the earlier hostilities of criticism, there comes a new race of critics to which a writer may, for the most part, calmly trust for a fair consideration, whether of the faults or the merits of his performance.

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

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      BEAUSEANT, a rich gentleman of Lyons, in love with,

      and refused by, Pauline Deschappelles MR. ELTON.

      GLAVIS, his friend, also a rejected suitor to Pauline MR. MEADOWS.

      COLONEL (afterwards General) DAMAS, cousin to Mme. Deschappelles,

      and an officer in the French army MR. BARTLEY.

      MONSIEUR DESCHAPPELLES, a Lyonnese merchant father to Pauline

      MR. STRICKLAND.

      GASPAR MR. DIDDEAR.

      CLAUDE MELNOTTE MR. MACREADY.

      FIRST OFFICER MR. HOWE.

      SECOND OFFICER MR. PRITCHARD.

      THIRD OFFICER MR. ROBERTS.

      Servants, Notary, etc.

      MADAME DESCHAPPELLES MRS. W. CLIFFORD.

      PAULINE, her daughter MISS HELEN FAUCIT.

      THE WIDOW MELNOTTE, mother to Claude MRS. GRIFFITH.

      JANET, the innkeeper’s daughter MRS. EAST.

      MARIAN, maid to Pauline MISS GARRICK.

      Scene—Lyons and the neighborhood.

      Time—1795-1798

      First performed on Thursday, the 15th of February, 1838, at Covent Garden Theatre.

      THE LADY OF LYONS;

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      or,

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      LOVE AND PRIDE.

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      ACT I.—SCENE I.

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      A room in the house of M. DESCHAPPELLES, at Lyons. PAULINE reclining on a sofa; MARIAN, her maid, fanning her—Flowers and notes on a table beside the sofa—MADAME DESCHAPPELLES seated—The gardens are seen from the open window.

      Mme. Deschap. Marian, put that rose a little more to the left.—[MARIAN alters the position of a rose in PAULINE’s hair.]—Ah, so!—that improves the hair,—the tournure, the j’e ne sais quoi!—You are certainly very handsome, child!—quite my style;—I don’t wonder that you make such

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