Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered

Author(s): Otway, Thomas
Note: «A translation and adaptation of: Saint-Réal, M. l’abbé de. Le conjuration des Espagnols contre la république de Venise» (ESTC R9483). Thomas Otway (1652 – 1685)
Date of composition:
  • 1682 (latest)
Date of first performance: 1682
Date of first publication: 1682
Genre (Annals): Tragedy

HIERONIMO/EMOTHE text(s): 1994 modern edition by Robert G. Lawrence
  • 1682 quarto Hindmarsh, J Printed title: Venice preserv'd, or, A plot discover'd single-play print
      ESTC: R9483 O567
      EEBO-TCP: A53535 - Huntington Library - EEBO record – TCP HTML XML

Early Performances

  • Company: The Duke’s Company Venue: Dorset Garden Date: 1682
    Cast:
      Location: Venue type: commercial theatre
      Note: 9 February
      Information source: Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Volume 1 Restoration Drama 1660-1700. 1952.

    Modern editions

    • Womersley, David, ed. Restoration Drama: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Blackwell Anthologies.
    • Lawrence, Robert G., ed. Restoration Plays. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1994. The Everyman Library.
    • Sutherland, James, ed. Restoration Tragedies. London: Oxford University Press, 1977.
    • Kelsall, Malcolm, ed. Venice Preserved. Otway, Thomas. London: Edward Arnold, 1969. Regents Restoration Drama.
    • Moore, Cecil A., ed. Twelve Famous Plays of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. New York: Modern Library, 1933. The Modern Library of the World’s Best Books.
    • Ghosh, J. C., ed. The Works of Thomas Otway: Plays, Poems, and Love-Letters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932. (2 vols.).
    • Gosse, Sir Edmund Restoration Plays. London: Dent, 1932. Everyman’s Library.
    • Dobrée, Bonamy , ed. Five Restoration Tragedies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1928. Oxford World’s Classics.
    • Summers, Montague, ed. The Complete Works of Thomas Otway. London: The Nonsuche Press, 1926.
    • Matthews, Brander; Leider, Paul Robert, ed. The Chief British Dramatists Excluding Shakespeare. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924.

    Select Bibliography: Criticism

    • Woodford, Benjamin. "The Intellectual Context of Thomas Otway's 'Venice Preserved'". SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. 2017, vol. 3, 57, p. 479-500, 699-700.
    • De Stasio, Clotilde. "'Venice Preserved': Dickens and Italian Stereotypes, Past and Present". Ed. Waters, Catherine, Hollington, Michael, Jordan, John, Chard, Chloe. Imagining Italy: Victorian Writers and Travellers. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
    • Rogers, Katharine M. "Feminine Agency and Feminine Values in 'Venice Preserved': A Response to Elizabeth Gruber". Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate. 2007, vol. 2-3, 17, p. 197-199.
    • Gruber, Elizabeth. "'Betray'd to Shame': 'Venice Preserved' and the Paradox of She-Tragedy". Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate. 2006, vol. 1-3, 16, p. 158-171.
    • Gill, Pat. "Revolutionary Identity in Otway's 'Venice Preserved'". Ed. DiPiero, Thomas, Gill, Pat,. Identity Politics in Early Modern Culture. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1997.
    • Mansau, Andrée. "'Venice Preserved': History, Myth and Literary Creation". New Comparison: A Journal of Comparative and General Literary Studies. 1988, 6, p. 34-45.
    • Schille, Candy B. K. "Reappraising 'Pathetic' Tragedies: 'Venice Preserved' and The Massacre of Paris". Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700. 1988, vol. 1, 12, p. 33-45.
    • Rogers, Katharine M. "Masculine and Feminine Values in Restoration Drama: The Distinctive Power of 'Venice Preserved'". Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 1985, vol. 7, 24, p. 390-404.
    • Festa-mcCormick, Diana. "Balzac and Otway's 'Venice Preserved'". Comparative Literature Studies. 1983, 20, p. 183-93.
    • Suganuma, Keiichi. 'Venice preserved'. Tokyo: Seibido, 1979.
    • Gabler, Hans Walter. "Merchant of 'Venice Preserved'". Notes and Queries. 1978, 25, p. 128-29.
    • Jump, John D. "A Comparison of Marino Faliero with Otway's 'Venice Preserved'". Byron Journal. 1977, 5, p. 20-37.
    • Durant, Jack. "'Honor's toughest task': family and state in 'Venice Preserved'". Studies in Philology. 1974, 71, p. 484-503.
    • Pasquarelli, Robert. "On the Nicky-Nacky Scenes in 'Venice Preserved'". Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research. 1969, vol. 2, 8, p. 38-41.
    • Poyet, A. "Un écho d'Absalom and Achitopel dans le prologue d'Otway à 'Venice Preserved'". Caliban. 1969, 6, p. 27-8.
    • Rives, S. "Undramaturge à la croisée des chemins: Otway dans 'Venice Preserved'". Caliban. 1969, 6, p. 17-26.
    • Klieneberger, H. R. ""Otway's 'Venice Preserved' and Hofmannsthal's Das Gerettete Venedig". Modern Language Review. 1967, 62, p. 292.
    • Koziol, Herbert. "Zu Thomas Otways 'Venice Preserved' und Hugo von Hofmannsthals Das gerettete Venedig". Ed. Hietsch, Otto. Österreich und die angelsächsische Welt. {Falta nombre ciudad}: Kulturbegegnungen und Vergleiche, 1961.
    • Hauser, David R. "Otway Preserved: Theme and Form in 'Venice Preserved'". Studies in Philology Chapel. 1958, 55, p. 481-493.
    • Moore, John Robert. "Contemporary Satire in Otway's 'Venice Preserved'". Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 1928, vol. 1, 43, p. 166-81.
    • Benham, Allen R. "Notes on Plays. On 'Venice Preserved'". modern language notes. 1923, 38, p. 252.

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