Amintor

The crisis and turning-point of the entire drama is a scene in which Amintor, with the king at his mercy, lowers his sword with the words: --

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

Amintor, in the play, has suffered a profound personal injury at the hands of his sovereign; but he cannot avenge this individual disgrace, because he is a subject of the royal malefactor.

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

Still the pathos is great, and the quarrel or threatened quarrel of the friends Amintor and Melantius, the horrible trial put upon Amintor by his sovereign and the abandoned Evadne, as well as the whole part of Evadne herself when she has once been (rather improbably) converted, are excellent.

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

I have known good Parts thrown up, from an humble Consciousness that something in them might put an Audience in mind of -- what was rather wish'd might be forgotten: Those remarkable Words of Evadne, in the Maid's Tragedy -- A Maidenhead, Amintor, at my Years?

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

The heroine, Evadne, has been in secret a mistress of the king, who marries her to Amintor, a gentleman of his court, because, as she explains to her bridegroom, on the wedding night,

From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

She is troth-plight wife to Amintor, and after he, by the king's command, has forsaken her for Evadne, she disguises herself as a man, provokes her unfaithful lover to a duel, and dies under his sword, blessing the hand that killed her.

From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

She is troth-plight wife to Amintor, and after he, by the king's command, has forsaken her for Evadne, she disguises herself as a man, provokes her unfaithful lover to a duel, and dies under his sword, blessing the hand that killed her.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

Yet when Evadne names the king as her paramour, Amintor exclaims:

From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

Yet when Evadne names the king as her paramour, Amintor exclaims:

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

The heroine, Evadne, has been in secret a mistress of the king, who marries her to Amintor, a gentleman of his court, {130} because, as she explains to her bridegroom, on the wedding night,

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886