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Pains and penalties : the defence of Queen Caroline, a play in four acts / by Laurence Housman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821--Drama.
- Caroline.
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821.
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830--Drama.
- George.
- George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, vii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 89 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm
- Manufacture:
- Plymoth : W. Brendon and Son, Limited Printers.
- Other Title:
- Pains & penalties
- Place of Publication:
- London : Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 3 Adam Street, Adelphi, MCMXI [1911]
- Notes:
- With a half-title.
- "Those who defend a bad cause have to defend it blindly: otherwise its life would be short. Driven from one false argument to another, they still find sufficiency in the last that is left to them. It is the thing, not the reasonableness of the thing that they are defending. Last year this play ... was privately and confidentially condemned by the Lord Chamberlain ... The author had dared to pass unfavourable comments on the character of King George IV; and hostile reference upon the stage to the great-grand-uncle of our present Sovereign was declared incompatible with respect for the institution of monarchy."--Preface.
- Publisher's advertisements: [2] p. at end.
- Blue cloth covers with lettering in gilft on spine and front cover.
- OCLC:
- 58897426
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