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    The Indian Emperor
    The Indian Emperor
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    The Indian Emperor

    By John Dryden

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    "The Indian Emperor" by John Dryden. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 8, 2020
    ISBN4064066426781
    The Indian Emperor
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    John Dryden

    John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.  Vinton A. Dearing is Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles.

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      The Indian Emperor - John Dryden

      John Dryden

      The Indian Emperor

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      [email protected]

      EAN 4064066426781

      Table of Contents

      Connection of The Indian Emperor to The Indian Queen

      Prologue

      Dramatis Personæ

      Scene I—A pleasant Indian country

      Scene II—A Temple

      Scene I—The Magicians Cave

      Scene II

      Scene III—Changes to the Indian country

      Scene IV

      Scene I—A Chamber Royal

      Scene II—A camp

      Scene III

      Scene IV—Mexico

      Scene I—A prison

      Scene II—Chamber-royal

      Scene III

      Scene IV—A prison

      Scene I—A chamber royal, an Indian hammock discovered in it

      Epilogue

      Connection of The Indian Emperor to The Indian Queen

      Prologue

      Dramatis Personæ

      Act I

      Scene I—A pleasant Indian country

      Scene II—A Temple

      Act II

      Scene I—The Magicians Cave

      Scene II

      Scene III—Changes to the Indian country

      Scene IV

      Act III

      Scene I—A Chamber Royal

      Scene II—A camp

      Scene III

      Scene IV—Mexico

      Act IV

      Scene I—A prison

      Scene II—Chamber-royal

      Scene III

      Scene IV—A prison

      Act V

      Scene I—A chamber royal, an Indian hammock discovered in it

      Scene II—A prison

      Epilogue

      Connection of The Indian Emperor to The Indian Queen

      Table of Contents

      CONNECTION

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      OF

      THE INDIAN EMPEROR

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      TO

      THE INDIAN QUEEN

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      The conclusion of the Indian Queen (part of which poem was writ by me) left little matter for another story to be built on, there remaining but two of the considerable characters alive, viz. Montezuma and Orazia. Thereupon the author of this thought it necessary to produce new persons from the old ones: and considering the late Indian Queen, before she loved Montezuma, lived in clandestine marriage with her general Traxalla, from those two he has raised a son and two daughters, supposed to be left young orphans at their death. On the other side, he has has given to Montezuma and Orazia, two sons and a daughter; all now supposed to be grown up to men's and women's estate; and their mother, Orazia (for whom there was no further use in the story), lately dead.

      So that you are to imagine about twenty years elapsed since the coronation of Montezuma; who, in the truth of the history, was a great and glorious prince; and in whose time happened the discovery and invasion of Mexico, by the Spaniards, under the conduct of Hernando Cortez, who joining with the Traxallan Indians, the inveterate enemies of Montezuma, wholly subverted that flourishing empire;—the conquest of which is the subject of this dramatic poem.

      I have neither wholly followed the story, nor varied from it; and, as near as I could, have traced the native simplicity and ignorance of the Indians, in relation to European customs;—the shipping, armour, horses, swords, and guns of the Spaniards, being as new to them, as their habits and their language were to the Christians.

      The difference of their religion from ours, I have taken from the story itself; and that which you find of it in the first and fifth acts, touching the sufferings and constancy of Montezuma in his opinions, I have only illustrated, not altered, from those who have written of it.

      Prologue

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      PROLOGUE.

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      Almighty critics! whom our Indians here

      Worship, just as they do the devil—for fear,

      In reverence to your power, I come this day,

      To give you timely warning of our play.

      The scenes are old, the habits are the same

      We wore last year, before the Spaniards came.

      Now, if you stay, the blood, that shall be shed

      From this poor play, be all upon your head.

      We neither promise you one dance, or show;

      Then plot, and language, they are wanting too:

      But you, kind wits, will those light faults excuse,

      Those are the common frailties of the muse;

      Which, who observes, he bays his place too dear;

      For 'tis your business to be cozened here.

      These wretched spies of wit must then confess,

      They take more pains to please themselves the less.

      Grant us such judges, Phoebus, we request,

      As still mistake themselves into a jest;

      Such easy judges, that our poet may

      Himself admire the fortune of his play;

      And, arrogantly, as his fellows do,

      Think he writes well, because he pleases you,

      This he conceives not hard to bring about,

      If all of you would join to help him out:

      Would each man take but what he understands,

      And leave the rest upon the poet's hands.

      Dramatis Personæ

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      DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

      INDIAN MEN.

      Montezuma, Emperor of Mexico.

      Odmar, his eldest son.

      Guyomar, his younger son.

      Orbellan, son to the late Indian Queen by Traxalla.

      High Priest of the Sun.

      WOMEN.

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      Cydaria, Montezuma's daughter.

      SPANIARDS.

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      Cortez, the Spanish General.

      SCENE—Mexico, and two leagues about it.

      Scene I—A pleasant Indian country

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      THE

      INDIAN EMPEROR.

      ACT I.

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      SCENE I.—A pleasant Indian country.

      Enter Cortez, Vasquez, Pizarro, with Spaniards and Indians in their party.

      Cort. On what new happy climate are we thrown,

      So long kept secret, and so lately known;

      As if our

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