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Title: The Stranger
A Drama, in Five Acts

Author: August von Kotzebue

Release Date: December 29, 2006 [eBook #20217]

Language: English

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Transcriber's note:

Typographical errors from the original 1806 edition
have been preserved.

THE STRANGER;

A Drama, in Five Acts;

As Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

Translated from the German of Kotzebue. by Benjamin Thompson, Esq.

Printed Under the Authority of the Managers from the Prompt Book.

With Remarks by Mrs. Inchbald.

[Illustration: STRANGER
CHILDREN.--DEAR FATHER! DEAR MOTHER! (Act V, Scene II.)
PAINTED BY HOWARD A. PUBLISH'D BY LONGMAN AND CO. ENGRAVED BY NEAGLE
1806]

London:
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row.
Savage and Easingwood, Printers, London.

REMARKS.

There seems to be required by a number of well meaning persons of the
present day a degree of moral perfection in a play, which few literary
works attain; and in which sermons, and other holy productions, are at
times deficient, though written with the purest intention.

To criticise any book, besides the present drama, was certainly not a
premeditated design in writing this little essay; but in support of the
position--that every literary work, however guided by truth, may
occasionally swerve into error, it may here be stated that the meek
spirit of christianity can seldom be traced in any of those pious
writings where our ancient religion, the church of Rome, and its clergy,
are the subjects: and that political writer