The National Register.
London, England, 1813-01-31 00:00:00

R EI'4ORSE.

As the appearance of a new legitimate Tragedy is in
modern clays an eNHbition of an interesting nature, both on
account of its nov( ltv, and, of what to the literary world is
of still greater importance, a sign that Managers arc desirous
of restoring to the ta,.;e its lost splendour and consequcoce,
ve have been induced to add the snip:Nut:lit reinai ks to
our very succinct account of Mr. COLERIDGE's Tragedy.
called " Remorse." and that those remarks should be the
better understood we shall give in the first place a more de-
tailed account of the ;lot.

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Don .111:ar, cleft st !inn of Don roldel, returns, after a six year's ab•
settee, to his !wive Lod, (Spain,) and to the inheritance of his loher's
domains. lie finds, on his an ival, Don Ordonio, his younger brother,
ender*, owing to,supplant him in the favor of lere,.a, Ins mistress ; a
a pot is even set rat toot, Ordioiio, to assassioate him, but Isid-re, a
Moor, who is chief of the assussios, spares his life. .purer learns
f :um Isidore that Teies.u, teas an accomplice in the intended murder ;
and, in his ra
.re, tears her picture from his breast, of which Isidore
possesses himself, in order to prove to °Mimi° that Altar has been
murdered. Alyce disguise, himself as a Sorcerer, and is applied to by
Orrionio in that capacity. By this means he discovers Teresa's inno-
cence, and 0:-/onio's black Olt. A picture oldie intended murder of
his brother is next unexpectedly thrust before the view of °Mania,
upon which the supposed Sorcerer is thrown nee a dungeon of the
castle, and the guilty br• ther, imagining that Isidore has betrayed
hire, determines to mut !E him first mid the Sorcerer afterwards.
The Cost of these purposes he accomplishes ; and /Minden (the wife of
Isidore) having discovered the murder of her husband, collects the
Moors together, in order to avenge it. Teresa, proceeds into the duit-
geon by a secret p:;•sage, in order to release the sopposed Sr.rueler,
and in a pa hetie dialoutte which follows, Afrar discovers himself to
her. A noise of uhbarriatu bolts is heard, and Ordonin resters with
poison, intending to compel the Sorcerer to drii,k it. A most affect
log sceues fdlows between the two brothers, in which Alm?. oiseovers
'himself. Remorse now semen Ordonio, as well for the conspiracy
Nga iitst Altar as for the murder of /14/ore. Ti. avenue the latter, the
Moors now rash in, headed by Alhadra, and, in spite of all the efforts of
Akar, hilt Oreonio.

Such is the ontEne of the fable, and we must confess that
we think it of rather too intricate a nature for the Emits of
a drama, and that it would much better suit the pages of a
romance. To this defect, no doubt, is OWing the tardy,
sluggish, and heavy march that characterizes Fcve ra I scenes,
not to say whole acts of the Play, which, from its high poeti-
cal mei its, we should su,p3ct would be far better Cued for
the closet titan the stage : for it is an acknowlecLed fact that
the must pOctical pieces are very seldom, if ever, the most
dramatic. The great lux oriancy both in laGguage and
imagery of the former by making the speeches long, gene-
impedes Ow, warmth of the dialogue, and causes it to
drag so as to decrease the interest greatly ; he-ides,
vely few are the ac:of s, even of the first respectability, who
can give due effe( t to those highly poetical and de,criptive
declamations. With the exception of one or two slight in-
consistencies, the first two ac:s are excellent : nothing can
be finer than the Moresco woman's account of her sufferings
in the Inqu4ition ; they are drawn with an exquisite adher-
ence to nature, and at the same time tune abound with force
and energy ; and, with much pleasure we add, that they lost
uone of their. beauties in the mouth of that always interest-

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lag, but is this play very superior actress Mrs. Gt.() but heca,.ise.we hail Vs being brou;trt and its strcess, as•
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