Evadne, or the Statue: A Tragedy, in Five Acts, as Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden (Classic Reprint)

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 elev...