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Viceroy, Asambeg. Even in the harem, however, Paulina's virtue is protected by an amulet she wears around her neck; Asambeg is infatuated with her and treats her with respect. A Turkish princess named Donusa falls in love with Vitelli; when this is discovered, they are both imprisoned
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Spanish. Donusa and Vitelli are viewed as personifying Maria and the Prince. The ideological difficulties involved in their relationship can then be seen as raising doubts about the wisdom of such a match. Francisco's Jesuitical character is then an allegory of the Duke of Buckingham.
333:. The true protagonist of the play, however, is Vitelli, a Venetian gentleman; he has come to Tunis disguised as a merchant, in order to search for his sister Paulina, who has been captured by Grimaldi's pirates and sold into the
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The renegade
Grimaldi falls afoul of Asambeg's bad temper, and his career as a pirate is finished. He experiences remorse for his past, and engineers the escape of Vitelli, Donusa, Paulina, and himself from Tunis back to Italy.
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Vitelli to convert to Islam and marry her, and so gain freedom for them both; Vitelli refuses, and in their ensuing conversation converts Donusa
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for which cast information exists. (Only five cast lists survive for the entire history of Queen
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Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and
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Massinger's The 'Renegado' (1624) and the
Spanish marriage
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495:2 Volumes, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1908.
369:Jowitt, in the early 21st century, reads
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56:Performance and publication
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638:The Great Duke of Florence
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381:'s failed trip to woo the
48:which had been printed in
820:Plays by Philip Massinger
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574:The Custom of the Country
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171:The Fair Maid of the West
166:English Renaissance drama
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670:The Little French Lawyer
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654:The Honest Man's Fortune
488:London, Routledge, 1991.
164:one of the few plays in
144:The play was revived in
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87:in the following year,
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75:. It was acted at the
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183:King John and Matilda
85:Queen Henrietta's Men
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134:The Duchess of Malfi
81:Lady Elizabeth's Men
69:Master of the Revels
590:The Double Marriage
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105:commendatory verses
99:for the bookseller
46:Los Baños de Argel,
42:Miguel de Cervantes
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686:The Maid of Honour
498:Vitkus, Daniel J.
379:Duke of Buckingham
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282:servant to Vitelli
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702:The Old Law
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224:John Sumner
189:The Wedding
150:Restoration
103:; it bears
29:written by
27:tragicomedy
810:1624 plays
799:Categories
785:(1619–22?)
745:(1612–24?)
452:Jowitt, C.
217:Mustapha,
21:is a late
705:(1614–18)
673:(1619–23)
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577:(1619–23)
536:Plays by
302:Paulina,
269:an eunuch
267:Carazie,
230:Vitelli,
206:Asambeg,
130:Webster's
377:and the
317:Synopsis
291:Donusa,
245:a Jesuit
156:The cast
117:Burton's
23:Jacobean
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383:Infanta
321:Set in
280:Gazet,
79:by the
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335:harem
323:Tunis
198:Role
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