SAEDANAPALUS

A TRAGEDY.

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[ Sardanapalxjs, King of Nineveh and Assyria , &c.I Abbaces, ihc Mcde who aspired to the Throne .

Beleses, a Chaldean and Soothsayer.

! Salemenes, the King’* Brother-in-Law.

Altada, an Assyrian Officer of the Palace.

Fania.

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PERSONjE.

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WOMEN.

Zaruta, the Queen.

Mybkha, an Ionian female slave, and the Favouriteof Sardanapalus.

Women composing the Harem of Sardanapalus,Guards, Attendants, Chaldean Priests, Medea&c., &c. *

Scene.—A Hall in the Royal Palace of Nineveh .

* In this tragedy it has been my intention to follow the account of Diodorus Siculus ; reducing it,however, to such dramatic regularity as I best could, and trying to approach the unities. I there-fore suppose the rebellion to explode and succeed in one day by a sudden conspiracy, instead ofthe long war of the history.