And so, in 1825, Tell became another of Macready's best successes.
Sheridan Knowles continued to write for the stage until 1845, when
he was drawn wholly from the theatre by a religious enthusiasm that
caused him, in 1851, to essay the breaking of a lance with Cardinal
Wiseman on the subject of Transubstantiation. Sir Robert Peel gave
ease to his latter days by a pension of 200 pounds a year from the
Civil List, which he had honourably earned by a career as dramatist,
in which he sought to appeal only to the higher sense of literature,
and to draw enjoyment from the purest source. Of his plays time two
comedies {1} here given are all that have kept their place upon the
stage. As one of the most earnest dramatic writers of the present
century he is entitled to a little corner in our memory. Worse work
of the past has lasted longer than the plays of Sheridan Knowles are
likely to last through the future.
H. M.
THE HUNCHBACK.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
(AS ORIGINALLY PERFORMED AT COVENT GARDEN IN 1832.)
Julia Miss F.
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