Name these English authors of tragedies about Muslim rulers, for 10 points each.
[10e] The “Great Mogul” personifies virtue in Aureng-Zebe, and Boabdelin’s death unites Almanzor and Almahide in The Conquest of Granada, two rhymed heroic tragedies by this first English poet laureate.
ANSWER: John Dryden
[10m] Cervantes’s writings on Algiers informed this author’s tragicomedy about Paulina’s captivity under the Tunisian bey Asambeg, The Renegado. He created Sir Giles Over-reach in A New Way to Pay Old Debts.
ANSWER: Philip Massinger
[10h] The newly-translated Arabian Nights inspired this author’s “tragedy of state” about a vizier’s daughter who opposes Sultan Almanzor, Almyna. This author wrote a satirical “secret history” of the Whigs in The New Atalantis.
ANSWER: Delarivier Manley [or Delia Manley]
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