Excerpt from Boadicea: A Tragedy of WarVI. The movement of spiritual affairs is simple and large; the movement of worldly affairs is rapid, discontinuous and various. Since a tragedy is spiritual and religious in its import, I tried to make my scenes massive, simple and of spiritual aspect, rather than rapid, various and profane. I wanted to achieve Spiritual grandeur rather than profane excitement.VII. With the above convictions in mind, I proceeded as follows: I opened the play with the attention focused immediately on Boadicea, and made a brave attempt never thereafter to let the focus be shifted from her.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.