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PREFACE.

of the piece) is heightened by the singular circumstance in which it is placed. Captain of a band of inexorable and sanguinary banditti, whose furious valour he wields to the most desperate purposes; living with those associates amidst woods and deserts, terrible and savage as the wolves they have displaced; this presents to the fancy a kind of preternatural personage, wrapped in all the gloomy grandeur of visionary beings[1]."

BUT the circumstance which of all others tends most powerfully to increase the interest of this Tragedy, while it impresses on the delineation of its scenes a strong stamp of originality, is the principle of Fatalism, which pervades the whole piece, and influences the conduct of the chief a-

gents

  1. ↑ Account of the German Theatre, by Henry Mackenzie, Esq; Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. 2.
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