Abdelazar
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Abdelazar or The Moor's Revenge is a 1676 play by Aphra Behn, an adaptation of the c.1600 Restoration tragedy Lust's Dominion. The composer Henry Purcell wrote incidental music for it in 1677, namely a song entitled "Lucinda is bewitching fair", an overture, a Rondeau, four Airs, a minuet, a jig and a hornpipe. This rondeau was used by Benjamin Britten as the end-theme for his The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, as the theme of the television series The First Churchills, and may also be heard as dancing music at the Netherfield ball in Pride and Prejudice.
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