A King's Daughter: A Tragedy in Verse

Chapter 15: Transcriber’s Notes

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Set in the royal palace of Samaria, the verse tragedy stages political and religious conflict around the foreign queen and her ill king as tension mounts over a refused vineyard and an impending feast. Ambitious military captains and prophets conspire to seize power, plotting assassination and anointment to overthrow the ruling family while rival factions mobilize support. The drama traces schemes, betrayals, and the collision of personal grief and public duty, with scenes of counsel, espionage, and sacrificial zeal. Themes include the corrupting pursuit of authority, the clash of belief systems, and the human costs of factional violence.

Transcriber’s Notes

Simple typographical errors were corrected.

Some eReaders cannot display small-cap text, and all of the character’s names are printed in small-caps, so all small-caps words are (also) shown in boldface (with eReaders that support boldface).

Page 52: Transcriber added “are” to “But there are other laws which do persist”, as its omission seems to be a typographical error, and it was found in other books containing this play.

Page 71: “And of both the men who had me neither knew me” ended with an em dash in a different copy of this play.

Page 99: “Agammemnon” was printed that way in this edition.

Page 112: “I am not terrified.” ended with a question mark in the source book, but should end with a period, as it does in this eBook.