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The sultan and Almyna are wed, and the following day, in Act 5, Scene 2, Almyna is to be executed. As she kneels before the mutes who are about to strangle her, the sultan calls off the execution, and tells Almyna that the execution was ""design'd but as a Tryal," of "How far" her "bravery of Soul
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Almyna assures her father that ultimately, she will go before the sultan with or without his blessing, because she sees this act as a divine calling and believes that she can change the sultan. The sultan agrees to see Almyna, but he is struck by her "strange
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The sultan of eastern Arabia, Caliph
Almanzor, has just executed his wife for committing adultery with one of her slaves. The sultan is so enraged over his wife's infidelity that he resolves to take revenge on all women by taking a new, virginal wife every night, and then executing her on the
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Abdalla his heir. He expects Abdalla to adopt the same marriage practices that he does, but Abdalla is in love with Almyna, the
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