MY DEAR LORD LYTTON,—After old-world records—such as the Bayeux tapestry and the Roman de Rou,—Edward Freeman’s History of the Norman Conquest, and your father’s Historical Romance treating of the same times, have been mainly helpful to me in writing this Drama. Your father dedicated his ‘Harold’ to my father’s brother; allow me to dedicate my ‘Harold’ to yourself.

• Show-Day at Battle Abbey, 1876
• Dramatis personæ
• Act I
  • Scene I
  • Scene II
• Act II
  • Scene I
  • Scene II
• Act III
  • Scene I
  • Scene II
• Act IV
  • Scene I
  • Scene II
  • Scene III
• Act V
  • Scene I
  • Scene II