The Hubble-Shue

Carstairs, Christian · 1786

Produced by Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net If originality be a test of genius, the authoress of the _Hubble-Shue_ bids fair to rank highest amongst the dramatic writers of the last century. This rare merit even the most fastidious critic must allow: but her histrionic essay is, in another respect, equally remarkable. We are told that obscurity is one of the sources of the sublime; and who will presume to deny that this drama is not sufficiently obscure? Perhaps the most remarkable feature in it is that singular, partially intelligible mystification, which we in vain look for in other writers: thus, when Gustard enters with his sword drawn…

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