, produced in 1679, as an English Tragedy based upon Sophocles and Seneca. During two years of his life Lee was a lunatic in Bedlam.

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[Footnote 7:]

Thomas Otway died of want in 1685, at the age of 34. Like Lee, he left college for the stage, attempted as an actor, then turned dramatist, and produced his first tragedy,

Alcibiades

, in 1675, the year in which Lee produced also his first tragedy,

Nero

. Otway's second play,

Don Carlos

, was very successful, but his best were, the