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Title: Venice Preserved
A Tragedy

Author: Thomas Otway

Release Date: January 11, 2010 [eBook #30934]

Language: English

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VENICE PRESERVED.

A Tragedy,

In Five Acts;

by

THOMAS OTWAY.

Correctly Given,
As Performed at the Theatres Royal.

With Remarks.

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

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REMARKS.

This interesting tragedy owes its plot and plan to the Abbe de St.
Real's "_Histoire de la Conjuration de Marquis de Bedamar_," or account
of the Spanish conspiracy at Venice, of which the Marquis de Bedamar,
the ambassador from Spain, was a promoter. Nature and the passions are
finely touched in this play; and it continues a favorite, deprived,
as it now is in representation, of that mixture of vile comedy which
originally diversified the tragic action. It has been remarked, that
Belvidera is the only truly valuable character; and indeed the principal
fault of this drama seems a want of sufficient and probable motive.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

Drury Lane, 1814. Covent Garden, 1817.
Duke of Venice Mr. Carr. Mr. Creswell.
Priuli Mr. Powell. Mr. Egerton.
Bedamar Mr. J. Wallack. Mr. Connor.
Jaffier Mr. Rae. Mr. C. Kemble.
Pierre Mr. Elliston. Mr. Young.
Renault Mr. R. Phillips. Mr. Chapman.
Elliott Mr. Waldeg