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2 unusual facts about The Fair Penitent


Richard Wroughton

His first appearance was made at Covent Garden on 24 September 1768 as Zaphna in ‘Mahomet,’ and not apparently in Altamont in ‘The Fair Penitent’ (acted on the 12th), as all his biographers say.

The Fatal Dowry

In 1702, Nicholas Rowe adapted The Fatal Dowry into a new version he titled The Fair Penitent.



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18th century in literature

In 1703 Nicholas Rowe's domestic drama The Fair Penitent, an adaptation of Massinger and Field's Fatal Dowry, was pronounced by Dr Johnson to be one of the most pleasing tragedies in the language.