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REVENGE.

A Tragedy.

BY DR. YOUNG.

CORRECTLY GIVEN, FROM COPIES USED IN THE THEATRES,

BY

THOMAS DIBDIN,

Author of several Dramatic Pieces: and
PROMPTER OF THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.

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Printed at the Chiswick Press,
BY C. WHITTINGHAM;

FOR WHITTINGHAM AND ARLISS, PATERNOSTER
ROW, LONDON.

THE REVENGE

WAS first acted at Drury Lane in 1721. The following story, given more at length by Mr. Hughes in his observations on OTHELLO, was most probably the ground on which the author founded his excellent tragedy:

"Don Alonzo had a beautiful and virtuous wife, by whose advice he had punished a Moorish slave with some severity for a slight offence. The vindictive Moresco, with the assistance of one of the lady's women, with whom he maintained an improper correspondence, contrived to make Alonzo so suspicious of a gardener, who unsuspectingly met his lady (on a false intimation to receive her commands), that both became victims of the Spaniard's jealousy; and the unfortunate agent of the Moor's malice too late confessed the fatal deception which involved the whole family in fearful ruin."

This tragedy, although now an established favourite, was not, in the first instance, very successful, having been performed only six nights; it has since been duly estimated, and will ever be ranked as a classic among the histrionic productions of British authors.

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