Franz of Idiocy.
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“The contexture of this Drama is so very easy, that it wou’d be troubling the reader to give him a long argument to explain it. Some imbicilities, and the temerity of Xerxes (such as his being deeply enamour’d with a plane tree, and the building a bridge over the Hellespont to unite Asia to Europe) are the basis of the story; the rest is fiction.”
So reads the programme to the first performance of Handel’s Xerxes at the King’s Theatre, Haymarket.
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