Volume 5 / Part 1 / Act 1 — ADVERTISEMENT
Reading edition
This production is founded partly on the story of a novel called "The Three Brothers,"[201] published many years ago, from which M. G. Lewis's "Wood Demon"[202] was also taken; and partly on the "Faust" of the great Goethe. The present publication[203] contains the two first Parts only, and the opening chorus of the third. The rest may perhaps appear hereafter.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
Stranger, afterwards Cæsar
Arnold.
Bourbon.
Philibert.
Cellini.
Bertha.
Olimpia.
Spirits, Soldiers, Citizens of Rome, Priests, Peasants, etc.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · {473}[The Three Brothers, by Joshua Pickersgill, junior, was published in 1803. There is no copy of The Three Brothers in the British MuseumNote 2 · {474}[For a résumé of M. G. Lewis's Wood Demon (afterwards re-cast as One O'clock; or, The Knight and the Wood-Demon, 1811), see "First VisiNote 3 · [Mrs. Shelley inscribed the following note on the fly-leaf of her copy of The Deformed Transformed:— "This had long been a favourite subject