
Venice Preserved: A Tragedy in Five Acts
A 17th Century, Fiction, Drama book. Reread August 2011
Thomas Otway (1652-1685) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period. In 1675 Thomas Betterton produced Otway s first play, Alcibiades, which was printed in the same year. Early in 1680 the first of Otway s two tragic masterpieces, The Orphan; or, The Unhappy Marriage, was produced at the Dorset Garden. In 1680, he...
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- Pages: 84 pages
- ISBN: 9781409924173 / 1409924173
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My least favorite Restoration drama thus far. The language is strikingly beautiful at times, but overly dramatic & heightened. There are several scenes where characters do a very soap-opera like exchange of not daring to speak! but having another character drag it out of him/her. Very melodramatic at times, and there are few characters... Belvidera, Jaffeir, and Pierre make a compelling triad, and there's something fascinating (if depressing!) about a tragedy without a clear moral lesson. Reread August 2011