Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718)

The Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy.

London

Printed for R. Wellington and Thomas Osborne

1700, 1702

"No! my disdainful Soul shall struggle out / And start at once from its dishonour'd Mansion."

ARTAXERXES.
Oh! Torture of my Soul! damn'd racking Thought
Am not I too reserv'd for servile Vassalage?
To be the Subject of a Boys Command?
A Boy by Nature set beneath my Sway?
And born to be my Slave! shall he triumph?
And bid me Live or Die? Shall he dispose
His beardless Visage to a scornful Smile,
And tell me that his Pleasure is my Fate?
No! my disdainful Soul shall struggle out
And start at once from its dishonour'd Mansion.
(IV.iii, p. 48)

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First performed December, 1700. Twenty-three entries in ESTC (1701, 1702, 1714, 1715, 1720, 1726, 1727, 1728, 1733, 1735, 1760, 1761, 1764, 1777, 1781, 1790, 1792, 1795).

The second edition includes "the addition of a new scene." The Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the New Theatre in Little-Lincolns-Inn-Fields. By Her Majesties Servants. Written by N. Rowe, 2nd edition (London: Printed for R. Wellington and Thomas Osborne, 1702). <Link to ECCO>

07/22/2013