Pix's first play, it purported to describe incidents in the life of Ibrahim, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
[1][2] The numbering is correct only if Mehmed the Conqueror is regarded as the first emperor, and the disputed reign of his son Cem is counted as well.
The injured Morena takes poison and dies in Amurat's arms, but not before inspiring a revolution against Ibrahim.
Paula de Pando suggests that in the figure of Morena, Pix:"has presented a victimized heroine who becomes, in her final hours, an emblem of the ravaged nation under an absolutist regime.
The idea of passivity becoming active political commitment for those that survive the female victim is a significant development from Banks' Anna [the heroine of his drama Virtue Betrayed, or, Anna Bullen (1682)], who advocates quietism and trusts Providence: Morena claims the necessity of a revolution that would vindicate her name and end Ibrahim's regime.