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Mordred and Hildebrand: A Book of Tragedies

Chapter 2: MORDRED.
By Wilfred Campbell
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A pair of tragic stage plays adapts Arthurian and heroic legend into five-act verse dramas that examine guilt, hereditary sin, and the collapse of honor. One play follows a tormented king who confesses a grievous violation and seeks penance while political rivalries and an illegitimate son intensify the kingdom’s unraveling. The companion drama stages comparable conflicts of loyalty, pride, and fate among warriors and courtiers, using formal speeches and ritualized scenes to probe moral responsibility and the tragic costs of ambition, betrayal, and doomed desires.

MORDRED
. . and . .
HILDEBRAND.

A BOOK OF TRAGEDIES

BY

WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL,

(Author of “The Dread Voyage,” “Lake Lyrics.”)

OTTAWA:
J. DURIE & SON
1895.

TO MY FRIENDS.
THE HONOURABLE J. C. PATTERSON,
— AND —
THE HONOURABLE A. R. DICKEY,
THIS BOOK OF TRAGEDIES
IS DEDICATED.

Entered according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, by William Wilfred Campbell, Ottawa, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture, at Ottawa.

PRINTED BY
Paynter & Abbott,
48 Rideau St.

MORDRED.

A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS.

FOUNDED ON THE ARTHURIAN LEGEND
OF
SIR THOMAS MALORY.

(This Drama was written in July and August, 1893.)

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

Arthur, King of Britain.
Mordred, Illegitimate Son of Arthur.
Sir Launcelot.
Merlin.
Sir Gwaine.
King Leodegrance, Father to Guinevere.
Sir Agravaine.
Sir Mador.
Sir Bedivere.
Dagonet, the king’s jester.
A Hermit.
Guinevere, Queen of Britain.
Vivien.
Elaine, a maiden who loves Launcelot.
Unid, a lady in waiting on the Queen.
Knights, gentlemen, ladies, soldiers, herdsmen, messengers and pages.