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''[[The Dead Heart]]''  is an "Adelphi Historical Drama" in a prologue and three acts by Watts Philips ()[].
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''[[The Dead Heart, or The Storming of the Bastille]]'' is an "Adelphi Historical Drama" in a prologue and three acts by Watts Philips ()[].
 
 
 
The Dead Heart: A Story of the French Revolution in a Prologue and Three Acts
 
by Watts Phillips. 
 
 
 
Apparently written in 1856 and performed at the Adelphi Theatre. Watts was later accused of plagiarizing Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, though his work had been written long before Dickens's story was serialized in ''All the Year Round''. (See Falconer, 1921, pp. 5-10)
 
 
 
 
 
Revised by Walter Herries Pollock and performed as ''[[The Dead Heart: A Story of the French Revolution]]'' at the Lyceum Theatre, London, on 28 September, 1889, and published in the same year by [[Samuel French]]
 
 
 
 
 
Facsimile version of the 1889 version by Pollock, [[The Internet Archive]] [https://archive.org/details/deadheartastory00pollgoog/page/n18]
 
 
 
 
 
J. A. Falconer "The Sources of a Tale of Two Cities", in ''Modern Language Notes'', Vol. 36, No. 1 (Jan., 1921), pp. 1-10)[]
 

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