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BY DR. YOUNG.

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CORRECTLY GIVEN,

AS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRES ROYAL.

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With Remarks.

London:

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Printed by D. S. Maurice, Fenchurch-street;

SOLD BY

T. HUGHES, 35, LUDGATE STREET, AND J. BYSH,
52, PATERNOSTER ROW;

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This tragedy is the dramatic master-piece of it's valuable author, but at first was not so successful as Busiris and his other plays. Though similar, in some degree, to the story of Shakspeare's Othello, the motives for resentment in Zanga are of a more noble and consistent nature, and the credulous object of his deadly hatred more excusable and more pitied in yielding to it's subtlety.

There is great scope for talent in the character of Zanga; but the whining nonsense of Alonzo and Carlos would tire in any hands.

We have inserted, on page 59, a narrative said to have really happened in Spain a few years before this piece was written;—it is so nearly followed by Dr. Young in his admirable Revenge, as to leave no doubt of having formed it's ground-work.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

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	Covent Garden, 1814.
Don Alonzo	Mr. Conway.
Don Carlos	Mr. Hamerton.
Don Alvarez	Mr. Murray.
Don Manuel	Mr. Creswell.
Zanga	Mr. Young.
Officers	Messrs. Brown, Grant, &c.
Leonora	Mrs. Egerton.
Isabella	Miss Logan.
SCENE—Spain.