Note 249 — Chapter V · LITERARY ESTIMATE
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Cf. pp. 76, n. 2; 96, n. 1; and 204, n. 2, ante. Dramas based more or less on oriental history appeared from time to time, e.g. Hughes’s Siege of Damascus (1720); D. Mallet’s Mustapha (1739); Johnson’s Irene (1749); Hodson’s Zoraida (1780); A. Dow’s Zingis, a Tragedy, new edition (1773); and translations of Voltaire’s Mahomet, Zara, and Orphan of China. Cf. Dr. Hoops, Present Problems (App. B, II., No. 33, p. 300).