This Mermaid Series volume collects the major plays of Thomas Otway, edited by Roden Noel: the tragedies Don Carlos, The Orphan and Venice Preserved, and the bawdy comedy The Soldier’s Fortune, whose rakish officers trade insults about women and Wapping. Noel’s introduction tells the poet’s short, sad life.
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