Abdelazer or The Moor’s Revenge is a 1676 play by Aphra Behn, an adaptation of the c.1600 tragedy Lust’s Dominion. It is Behn’s only tragic play. Abdelazer is a captive Moor living at the court of King Philip of Spain, who had killed his father some years earlier. Abdelazer seeks revenge, and becomes the lover […]