This historical play, partly in prose, was produced on the stage, at the Lyceum Theatre, in 1876, with Mr. Henry Irving as Philip of Spain, and Miss Bateman (Mrs. Crowe) as Queen Mary. A patriotic utterance of a line or two, not contained in the published editions, was interpolated, in the acting version, in one of the speeches of the Queen; and, being quite Shakesperian in its ring, like certain utterances attributed to Cymbeline and to King John, it brought down the house. Probably these lines appeared in one or other of the numerous newspaper notices of the performance; but they do not seem to have been added permanently, in later editions, to the text of the published play.
1877.
Harold. A Drama. By Alfred Tennyson, (With a Prefatory Sonnet, "Show-Day at Battle Abbey.") Dedicated to the Earl of Lytton, Governor-General of India. London: H. S. King and Co., 1877, green cloth, pp. 161.
