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Charles Robert Maturin (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

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In addition to his novels, Charles Robert Maturin also wrote plays, three of which were performed and published during his lifetime: Bertram: Or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand, a Tragedy (1816), Manuel (1817), and Fredolfo (1819). A fourth, Osmyn, the Renegade: Or, The Siege of Salerno, a Tragedy, written sometime between 1817 and 1821, was produced in Dublin in 1830. It was never published in its entirety; excerpts were printed in The Edinburgh Literary Journal (April 24, 1830). Of these plays, only Bertram was...

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