Abdelazer; or, The Moor's Revenge (/æbdɛləˈzɛər/ or /æbdəˈlɑːzə/) is a 1676 play by Aphra Behn, an adaptation of the c. 1600 tragedy Lust's Dominion.
Abdelazer is a captive Moor living at the court of King Philip of Spain, who had killed his father some years earlier.
Staged by the Duke's Company the cast included Thomas Betterton as Abdelazer, Henry Harris as Ferdinand, William Smith as Philip, Matthew Medbourne as Mendozo, John Crosby as Alonzo, Henry Norris as Roderigo, Thomas Percival as Osmin, Mary Lee as Isbaella, Mary Betterton as Florella and Margaret Osborne as Elvira.
[3] The composer Henry Purcell wrote incidental music (Z 570)[a] for a revival in the summer of 1695, with movements: The rondeau was used by Benjamin Britten as the theme for his set of variations The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1946).
It was also used as the closing theme of the television series The First Churchills (1969), as the intro song for Intellivision video game Thunder Castle (1986),[5] and may be heard as dancing music at the Netherfield ball in the 2005 production of Pride and Prejudice.