Venice Preserved: A Tragedy

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This interesting tragedy owes its plot and plan to the Abbé de St. Réal's Histoire de la Conjuration de Marquis de Bedamar , or account of the Spanish conspiracy at Venice, of which the Marquis de Bedamar, the ambassador from Spain, was a promoter. Nature and the passions are finely touched in this play; and it continues a favorite, deprived, as it now is in representation, of that mixture of vile comedy which originally diversified the tragic action. It has been remarked, that Belvidera is the only truly valuable character; and indeed the principal fault of this drama seems a want of sufficient and probable motive.
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