page_title: Douglas (play)
hierarchical_section_title: Douglas (play)
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Henry Erskine Johnston (1777–1830?), Scottish actor, in the titkle role of Douglas in the play by John Home.
context_page_description: Douglas is a blank verse tragedy by John Home. It was first performed in 1756 in Edinburgh.
  The play was a big success in both Scotland and England for decades, attracting many notable actors of the period, such as Edmund Kean, who made his debut in it. Peg Woffington played Lady Randolph, a part which found a later exponent in Sarah Siddons.
  The opening lines of the second act are probably the best known:
  My name is Norval; on the Grampian Hills
  My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain,
  Whose constant cares were to increase his store.
  And keep his only son, myself, at home.
  —
context_section_description: Douglas is a blank verse tragedy by John Home. It was first performed in 1756 in Edinburgh.
  The play was a big success in both Scotland and England for decades, attracting many notable actors of the period, such as Edmund Kean, who made his debut in it. Peg Woffington played Lady Randolph, a part which found a later exponent in Sarah Siddons. 
  The opening lines of the second act are probably the best known:
  My name is Norval; on the Grampian Hills 
  
  My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain, 
  
  Whose constant cares were to increase his store.
  
  And keep his only son, myself, at home.
  — (Douglas, II, i)
caption: Portrait of Henry Erskine Johnston (1777–1830?), Scottish actor, in the title role of Douglas
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