TY - BOOK AU - Young,Edward TI - The Revenge: A Tragedy AV - PR PY - 2009/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Tragedies (Drama) N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revenge_(Young_play); Release date is 2009-12-11; Produced by Delphine Lettau and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Revenge: A Tragedy" by Edward Young is a tragedy written in 1721. Set in sixteenth-century Africa under Spanish rule, the play centers on Zanga, an African prince transformed by the brutal experience of slavery into a figure consumed by cruelty and vengeance. The work gained popularity throughout the eighteenth century for its Othello-like lead role, attracting celebrated actors including Edmund Kean and later African-American performer Ira Aldridge. Young's tragedy explores themes of power, suffering, and the devastating psychological toll of oppression. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30653 ER -