ARTHUR A TRAGEDY ARTHUR A TRAGEDY BY LAURENCE BINYON BOSTON SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY Copyright, 1923 By SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY (Incorporated) Copyright, 1923 By Incorporated Printed in the United States of America THE MURRAY PRINTING COMPANY CAMBRIDGE, MASS. BINDING BY THE BOSTON BOOKBINDING COMPANY CAMBRIDGE, MASS. [Pg 5] [Pg 5] TO SIR JOHN AND LADY MARTIN HARVEY AND With what names should I inscribe this play but with yours? Yet what right have I to dedicate to you what is already so much your own? Memory goes back to that June day, now long ago, when first I undertook to write for you a play out of Malory’s pages on a theme long pondered by you both. And many days come back to me, in London or by the sunny Channel, when time was forgotten in ardent work and interchange of ideas; in thinking out and talking over crucial situations; in rejecting and recasting; in the search for essential structure. How much the play owes to you, both in framework and in detail, none knows so well as I. Give me leave,