The Bride of Abydos is a drama in 3 acts written by William Dimond and based on Lord Byron's same-titled poem.
It was one of three Dimond's plays whose action takes place in Turkey, the other two being Abon Hassan (based on 1001 nights) and Aethiop, or the Child of the Desart.
[1] Byron's poem was too short to make a full-length play of it, and Dimond made many additions to it.
Furthermore, he found the final too gloomy and catastrophic and substituted it by an incident from Byron's another poem, The Corsair.
For the first performance the scenery was made by Greenwood and the music was composed by Michael Kelly (it included an opening chorus, 8 songs, a duet, a bass solo, and a glee).