The Dead Heart, or The Storming of the Bastille

The Dead Heart is an "Adelphi Historical Drama" in a prologue and three acts by Watts Philips ()[].

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 [1]

J. A. Falconer "The Sources of a Tale of Two Cities", in Modern Language Notes, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Jan., 1921), pp. 1-10)[]