Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Jephtha: A Drama Translated From the Latin
The attention of the present translator was first drawn to this powerful drama by the following words of Mr. Hume Brown (life of George Buchanan, 1890, p. 121) Of his two original dramas, Jepkthes and Baptisms, the former, as he himself justly thought, is undoubtedly much the more striking dramatic performance. The story of J ephtha and his daughter is clearly one which presents all the materials for tragedy of the highest order; and Buchanan, shackled though he is by con ventional forms and a dead language, has certainly risen to the greatness of his theme. His conception of Jephtha and his daughter Iphis, is indeed quite Miltonic in intensity and elevation. But here, again, we can but express regret that there should have been lost to Buchanan's native literature a talent which, even under such untoward conditions.
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