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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: ho ' MATTHEW LEWIS. (E. Review, 1803.) 33J, Alfenso, KingojCastile. A Tragedy in Five Acts. By M. G. Lewis. Price as. 6d. Alfonso, king of Castile, had, many years previous to the supposed epoch of the play, left his minister and general Orsino to perish in prison, from a false accusation of treason. Ctesario, son to Orsino (who by accident had liberated Amelrosa, daughter of Alfonso, from the Moors, and who is married to her, unknown to the father), becomes a great favourite with the King, and avails himself of the command of the armies with which he is intrusted, to gratify his revenge for his father's misfortunes, to forward his own ambitious views, and to lay a plot by which he may deprive Alfonso of his throne and his life. Marquis Guzman, poisoned by his wife Ottilia, in love with Cffisario, confesses to the King that the papers upon which the suspicion of Orsini's guilt was founded, were forged by him: and the King, learning from his daughter Amelrosa that Orsino is still alive, repairs to his retreat in the forest, is received with the most implacable hauteur and resentment, and in vain implores forgiveness of his injured minister. To the same forest, Csesario, informed of the existence of his father, repairs, and reveals his intended plot against the King. Orsino, convinced of Alfonso's goodness to his subjectsthough incapable of forgiving him for his unintentional injuries to himself, in vain dissuades his son from the conspiracy; and at last, ignorant of their marriage, acquaints Amelrosa with the plot formed by her husband against her father. Amelrosa, already poisoned by Ottilia, in vain attempts to prevent Caesario from blowing up a mine laid under the royal palace; information of which she had received from Ottilia, stabbed by Csesario to avoid her impor...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217829168 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217829163 |
| Weight | 2.38 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.46 In |
| List Price | $44.08 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 748 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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