Excerpt from Evadne, or the Statue: A Tragedy, in Five Acts, as Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden
The-author has employed a part of the fable of shanv's T raytor, 'in the construction'of his plot. In that tragedy, a kinsman, and favourite of the Duke of Florence, contrives to excite in him i a dishonourable passion for the sister of a Florentine nobleman, as the means of procuring the murder of the Duke by the hand of the injured brother, and thus opening the way for his own elevation to the throne. I To that extent only the plot of this tragedy is derived Tmm shirley. The incidents, situations.
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