Venice Preserv'd

Venice Preserv'd (1682)
by Thomas Otway

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Venice Preserv'd is an English Restoration play written by Thomas Otway, and the most significant tragedy of the English stage in the 1680s. It was staged first in 1682, with Thomas Betterton as Jaffeir and Elizabeth Barry as Belvidera. The play was soon printed and enjoyed many revivals through to the 1830s.

This transcription is of the first edition, published in 1682.

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Venice Preserv'd,

OR,

A Plot Discover'd.

A

TRAGEDY.

As it is Acted at the

DUKE'S THEATRE.

Written by THOMAS OTWAY.

LONDON,
Printed for Jos. Hindmarsh at the Sign of the
Black Bull, over against the Royal
Exchange in Cornhill. 1682.

Contents (not listed in original)

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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