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The complete poetical works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The complete poetical works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 0$orio, 1797. Vblez . Albert . . Osorio .. Francesco. . Maurice . . Ferdinand . Naomi . . Maria . . of OSORIO A TRAGEDY ' DRAMATIS PERSONAE [Not in ... more »MSS.] Remorse. - Marquis Valdez, Father to the two brothers, and Doiia Teresa's Guardian. -Don Alvar, the eldest son. - Don Ordonio, the youngest son. — Monviedho, a Dominican and Inquisitor. zulihez, the faiittful attendant on Altar. = Isidore, a Moresco Cliie./1ain, ostensibly a Christian. --naomi. = DoifA Teresa, an Orphan Heiress. Faiiiliars or The Inquisition. Moors, Servants, tc. 1 First published in 1878 by Mr. John Pearson (under Hie editorship of R. H. Shepherd) : included in P. and D. W. 1877-80, and in P. 1C. 1898. Four MSS. are (or were) extant, (1) the transcript of the play as sent to Sheridan in 1797 (MS. I); (2) a contemporary transcript sent by Coleridge to a friend (MS. II) ; (3) a third transcript (the handwriting of a ' legal character') sold at Christie's, March 8, 1895 (MS. Ill); (4) a copy of Act I in Coleridge's handwriting, which formerly belonged to Thomas Poole, and is now in the British Museum (ifS. P.). The text of the present issue follows MS. I. The variants are derived from MSS. I, II as noted by J. Dykes Campbell in P. W. 1898, from a MS. collation (by J. D. Campbell) of MS. Ill, now published for the first time, and from a fresh collation of MS. P. Osorio was begun at Stowey in March, 1797. Two and a half Acts were written before June, four and a half Acts before September 18, 1797. A transcript of the play (Jf,S. J) was sent to Drury Lane in October, and rejected, on the score of the ' obscurity of the last three acts', on or about December 1, 1797. See ' Art.' Coleridge, Osorio and Remorse, by J. D. Campbell, Athenaeum, April 8, 1890. OsorioA ...« less