Excerpt from Hernani It is evident that the freedom from formal restrictions, claimed by the Romantics, had been a characteristic of those earlier dramatic efforts which preceded the Renaissance. In the seventeenth century genius had produced great and noble tragedies in spite of the unities the eighteenth century brought forth few tragedies of real merit, and the first decades of the nineteenth were even less prolific. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.